The Missing Lemur Link: An Ancestral Step in the Evolution by Ivan Norscia,Elisabetta Palagi,Alison Jolly,Ian

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By Ivan Norscia,Elisabetta Palagi,Alison Jolly,Ian Tatterall,Michael Huffman

Lemurs proportion a typical far-off ancestor with people. Following their very own evolutionary pathway, lemurs give you the excellent version to make clear the behavioural features of primates together with clash administration, verbal exchange techniques and society development and the way those features of social dwelling relate to these present in the anthropoid primates. Adopting a comparative strategy all through, lemur behaviour is cross-examined with that of monkeys, apes and people. This booklet stories and expands upon the most recent fields of study in lemur behavioural biology, together with contemporary analytical techniques that experience to this point been constrained to reviews of haplorrhine primates. varied methodological methods are harmonised during this quantity to damage conceptual partitions among either primate taxa and diversified disciplines. via a spotlight at the methodologies in the back of lemur behaviour and social interactions, destiny primate researchers should be inspired to provide at once similar results.

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