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Primate taxonomy /

"In this book, Colin Groves proposes a complete taxonomy of living primates, reviewing the history and practice of their classification and providing an up-to-date synthesis of recent molecular and phylogenetic research. He contends that the taxonomy of living species is critical to understandi...

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Main Author: Groves, Colin P.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Washington [D.C.] : Smithsonian Institution Press, c2001.
Series:Smithsonian series in comparative evolutionary biology.
Subjects:
Primates > Classification.
Primates.
Primates > classification.
Classification.
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Table of Contents:
  • The Theory of Primate Taxonomy
  • What Taxonomy Is Meant to Do and How It Should Do It
  • Levels of Taxonomy
  • Changing the Names
  • The Meaning of "Relatedness"
  • The Emergence of Defined Taxonomic Philosophies
  • The Importance of Monophyly
  • Problems with Cladistics
  • The DNA Revolution
  • The Cladistic Method
  • The Fossil Record
  • Taxonomic Ranking and Nomenclature
  • The Linnaean Hierarchy
  • Adding More Categories
  • Ages of the Different Ranks
  • Should Taxa Be Ranked at All?
  • Rules of Nomenclature
  • The Species-Group
  • Theoretical Species Concepts
  • Operational Species Concepts
  • The Species in Paleontology
  • Resolution?
  • Need Species Be Monophyletic?
  • Subspecies and Populations
  • Phylogeography and Subspecies
  • The Consequences for Conservation
  • A Brief History of Primate Taxonomy
  • Successors to Linnaeus
  • The Early Nineteenth Century: The French School
  • The Early Nineteenth Century: The German Contribution
  • Primate Taxonomy Takes Off in the Anglophone World
  • The Age of Prolixity
  • The Age of Revisions
  • The Chromosome Revolution
  • The Protein Revolution
  • The Fieldwork Revolution
  • Late Twentieth-Century Synthesis
  • Where the Main Collections Are
  • Protocol for Alpha Taxonomy
  • Taxonomy of Primates above the Family Level
  • Dividing the Strepsirrhini
  • Dividing the Haplorrhini
  • Interrelationships of Platyrrhines
  • A Classification of Primates to Family Level
  • Putting Primate Taxonomy into Practice
  • Malagasy Lemurs
  • Family Cheirogaleidae Gray, 1873.

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