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THE SMALLEST ANTHROPOIDS
THE MARMOSET/CALLIMICO RADIATION |
| By: |
Susan M. Ford (Editor), Leila M. Porter (Editor), Lesa C. Davis (Editor) |
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Paperback |
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| ISBN 10: |
1461424461 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781461424468 |
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| Publisher: |
SPRINGER-VERLAG NEW YORK INC. |
| Pub. date: |
25 February, 2012 |
| Series: |
Developments in Primatology: Progress and Prospects |
| Pages: |
508 |
| Description: |
Here is a comprehensive examination of the newly recognized callimico/marmoset clade, which includes the smallest anthropoid primates on earth. It features sections on phylogeny, taxonomy and functional anatomy, behavioral ecology, and reproductive physiology. |
| Synopsis: |
The marmosets and callimicos are diminutive monkeys from the Amazon basin and Atlantic Coastal Forest of South America. The marmosets are the smallest anthropoid primates in the world, ranging in size from approximately 100 to 350 g (Hershkovitz 1977; Soini 1988; Ford and Davis 1992; Araujo et al. 2000); calli- cos are not much bigger, at around 350-540 g (Ford and Davis 1992; Encarnacion and Heymann 1998; Garber and Leigh 2001). Overwhelming genetic evidence, from both nuclear and mitochondrial DNA, now indicates that these taxa represent a unified clade within the callitrichid radiation of New World monkeys, a finding that was unthinkable to all but a few geneticists a decade ago (see review in Cortes- Ortiz, this volume Chap. 2). With increasing evidence that the earliest anthropoids were themselves small bodied (under the 0. 8-1 kg threshold that marks all other living anthropoids; see Ross and Kay 2004), the ecology, behavior, reproductive stresses, and anatomical adaptations of the marmosets and callimicos provide the best living models with which to assess the types of adaptations that may have characterized early anthropoids.When Anthony Rylands' Marmosets and Tamarins: Systematics, Behaviour and Ecology was published in 1993, contributions focused almost entirely on tamarins due to the scarcity of data on marmoset behavior and the almost total lack of kno- edge about the enigmatic callimicos. Fortunately, this has changed (see Fig. 1). |
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94 black & white illustrations, 67 black & white tables, biography |
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US |
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Springer-Verlag New York Inc. |
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