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<p> At a time when scientists are becoming increasingly defensive, it is refreshing to find authors so willing to speculate and offer hypotheses in areas where detailed information is often limited. The broad scope of the book renders it a useful reference for research workers in widely differing fields of primate studies... The main themes of the book are methodology, lines for future research and the need for more detailed study on all aspects of the morphology and behaviour of extant primates if inferences drawn from prehistoric forms are to be meaningful. <p> --John MacKinnon, Journal of Animal Ecology <p> This excellent volume is based on a 1970 Burg Wartenstein Symposium of the same title. Its expressed purpose is to establish broader perspectives on experimental design and inference from fossil data... [A]n excellent resource for advanced students. <p> --Claud A. Bramblett, American Anthropologist <p> The book, The Functional and Evolutionary Biology of Primates, edited by Russell Tuttle, is a collection of revised versions of papers given at the Berg Wartenstein Symposium No. 48... [A]n exciting and stimulating book. <p> --Dwight W. Read, Evolution <p> This is a book for specialists, each of whom will find something of importance. <p> --M. H. Day, Science <p> The present volume is a nicely produced and carefully edited compilation of the papers presented at a symposium organized in July 1970 by the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research at its Austrian Conference Centre. Its overall quality is high and the volume forms a compendium, valuable alike to experienced workers and to advanced students... Several interrelated themes run throughout this well-textured symposium. <p> --Eric H. Ashton, Man <p> This book will... assume a place on the list of well-used references for both professionals and students and could, no doubt, contribute to any course dealing with primatology, regardless of its orientation. <p> --Pamela Cook, American Sci

-At a time when scientists are becoming increasingly defensive, it is refreshing to find authors so willing to speculate and offer hypotheses in areas where detailed information is often limited. The broad scope of the book renders it a useful reference for research workers in widely differing fields of primate studies... The main themes of the book are methodology, lines for future research and the need for more detailed study on all aspects of the morphology and behaviour of extant primates if inferences drawn from prehistoric forms are to be meaningful.- --John MacKinnon, Journal of Animal Ecology -This excellent volume is based on a 1970 Burg Wartenstein Symposium of the same title. Its expressed purpose is to establish broader perspectives on experimental design and inference from fossil data... [A]n excellent resource for advanced students.- --Claud A. Bramblett, American Anthropologist -The book, The Functional and Evolutionary Biology of Primates, edited by Russell Tuttle, is a collection of revised versions of papers given at the Berg Wartenstein Symposium No. 48... [A]n exciting and stimulating book.- --Dwight W. Read, Evolution -This is a book for specialists, each of whom will find something of importance.- --M. H. Day, Science -The present volume is a nicely produced and carefully edited compilation of the papers presented at a symposium organized in July 1970 by the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research at its Austrian Conference Centre. Its overall quality is high and the volume forms a compendium, valuable alike to experienced workers and to advanced students... Several interrelated themes run throughout this well-textured symposium.- --Eric H. Ashton, Man -This book will... assume a place on the list of well-used references for both professionals and students and could, no doubt, contribute to any course dealing with primatology, regardless of its orientation.- --Pamela Cook, American Scientist -The volume collects several working papers on the study of primate evolution in general and human evolution in particular. The topics dealt with include paleoprimatology, cranial morphology, comparative neurobiology, post cranial morphology, and behavior and ecology.- --Nicholas S. Thompson, The Quarterly Review of Biology

-At a time when scientists are becoming increasingly defensive, it is refreshing to find authors so willing to speculate and offer hypotheses in areas where detailed information is often limited. The broad scope of the book renders it a useful reference for research workers in widely differing fields of primate studies... The main themes of the book are methodology, lines for future research and the need for more detailed study on all aspects of the morphology and behaviour of extant primates if inferences drawn from prehistoric forms are to be meaningful.- --John MacKinnon, Journal of Animal Ecology -This excellent volume is based on a 1970 Burg Wartenstein Symposium of the same title. Its expressed purpose is to establish broader perspectives on experimental design and inference from fossil data... [A]n excellent resource for advanced students.- --Claud A. Bramblett, American Anthropologist -The book, The Functional and Evolutionary Biology of Primates, edited by Russell Tuttle, is a collection of revised versions of papers given at the Berg Wartenstein Symposium No. 48... [A]n exciting and stimulating book.- --Dwight W. Read, Evolution -This is a book for specialists, each of whom will find something of importance.- --M. H. Day, Science -The present volume is a nicely produced and carefully edited compilation of the papers presented at a symposium organized in July 1970 by the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research at its Austrian Conference Centre. Its overall quality is high and the volume forms a compendium, valuable alike to experienced workers and to advanced students... Several interrelated themes run throughout this well-textured symposium.- --Eric H. Ashton, Man -This book will... assume a place on the list of well-used references for both professionals and students and could, no doubt, contribute to any course dealing with primatology, regardless of its orientation.- --Pamela Cook, American Scientist -The volume collects several working papers on the study of primate evolution in general and human evolution in particular. The topics dealt with include paleoprimatology, cranial morphology, comparative neurobiology, post cranial morphology, and behavior and ecology.- --Nicholas S. Thompson, The Quarterly Review of Biology At a time when scientists are becoming increasingly defensive, it is refreshing to find authors so willing to speculate and offer hypotheses in areas where detailed information is often limited. The broad scope of the book renders it a useful reference for research workers in widely differing fields of primate studies... The main themes of the book are methodology, lines for future research and the need for more detailed study on all aspects of the morphology and behaviour of extant primates if inferences drawn from prehistoric forms are to be meaningful. --John MacKinnon, Journal of Animal Ecology This excellent volume is based on a 1970 Burg Wartenstein Symposium of the same title. Its expressed purpose is to establish broader perspectives on experimental design and inference from fossil data... [A]n excellent resource for advanced students. --Claud A. Bramblett, American Anthropologist The book, The Functional and Evolutionary Biology of Primates, edited by Russell Tuttle, is a collection of revised versions of papers given at the Berg Wartenstein Symposium No. 48... [A]n exciting and stimulating book. --Dwight W. Read, Evolution This is a book for specialists, each of whom will find something of importance. --M. H. Day, Science The present volume is a nicely produced and carefully edited compilation of the papers presented at a symposium organized in July 1970 by the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research at its Austrian Conference Centre. Its overall quality is high and the volume forms a compendium, valuable alike to experienced workers and to advanced students... Several interrelated themes run throughout this well-textured symposium. --Eric H. Ashton, Man This book will... assume a place on the list of well-used references for both professionals and students and could, no doubt, contribute to any course dealing with primatology, regardless of its orientation. --Pamela Cook, American Scientist The volume collects several working papers on the study of primate evolution in general and human evolution in particular. The topics dealt with include paleoprimatology, cranial morphology, comparative neurobiology, post cranial morphology, and behavior and ecology. --Nicholas S. Thompson, The Quarterly Review of Biology At a time when scientists are becoming increasingly defensive, it is refreshing to find authors so willing to speculate and offer hypotheses in areas where detailed information is often limited. The broad scope of the book renders it a useful reference for research workers in widely differing fields of primate studies... The main themes of the book are methodology, lines for future research and the need for more detailed study on all aspects of the morphology and behaviour of extant primates if inferences drawn from prehistoric forms are to be meaningful. --John MacKinnon, Journal of Animal Ecology This excellent volume is based on a 1970 Burg Wartenstein Symposium of the same title. Its expressed purpose is to establish broader perspectives on experimental design and inference from fossil data... [A]n excellent resource for advanced students. --Claud A. Bramblett, American Anthropologist The book, The Functional and Evolutionary Biology of Primates, edited by Russell Tuttle, is a collection of revised versions of papers given at the Berg Wartenstein Symposium No. 48... [A]n exciting and stimulating book. --Dwight W. Read, Evolution This is a book for specialists, each of whom will find something of importance. --M. H. Day, Science The present volume is a nicely produced and carefully edited compilation of the papers presented at a symposium organized in July 1970 by the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research at its Austrian Conference Centre. Its overall quality is high and the volume forms a compendium, valuable alike to experienced workers and to advanced students... Several interrelated themes run throughout this well-textured symposium. --Eric H. Ashton, Man This book will... assume a place on the list of well-used references for both professionals and students and could, no doubt, contribute to any course dealing with primatology, regardless of its orientation. --Pamela Cook, American Scientist The volume collects several working papers on the study of primate evolution in general and human evolution in particular. The topics dealt with include paleoprimatology, cranial morphology, comparative neurobiology, post cranial morphology, and behavior and ecology. --Nicholas S. Thompson, The Quarterly Review of Biology

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Russell Tuttle is professor of anthropology, on the Committee on Evolutionary Biology, and part of the Morris Fishbein Center for the History of Biology and Medicine at the University of Chicago. He specializes in research in the history and theory of human evolution, primate behavior, and comparative functional morphology. His contributions to the literature have appeared in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology, Science, Science Journal, and other publications.

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