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Food Acquisition and Processing in Primates

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Editors:
  1. David J. Chivers

    1. University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England

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  2. Bernard A. Wood

    1. The Middlesex Hospital Medical School, London, England

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  3. Alan Bilsborough

    1. University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England

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Table of contents (25 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Ecological Diversity and Food Acquisition

    1. Front Matter

      Pages xiii-xiii
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    2. Primates: Their Niche Structure and Habitats

      • Malcolm Coe
      Pages 1-32

    3. Environmental Grain, Niche Diversification and Feeding Behaviour in Primates

      • Suzanne Ripley
      Pages 33-72

    4. Body Size, Brain Size and Feeding Strategies

      • R. D. Martin
      Pages 73-103

    5. Primate Locomotion and Diet

      • John G. Fleagle
      Pages 105-117

    6. Habitat Richness, Foraging Range and Diet in Chimpanzees and Some Other Primates

      • Adriaan Kortlandt
      Pages 119-159

    7. The Adaptive Capacities of the Hanuman Langur and the Categorizing of Diet

      • Paul Winkler
      Pages 161-166

    8. Subcategorizing Foods in Primates

      • M. G. M. van Roosmalen
      Pages 167-175

    9. Food Acquisition and Processing as a Function of Plant Chemistry

      • Peter G. Waterman
      Pages 177-211

  3. Food Processing in Living Primates

    1. Front Matter

      Pages N3-N3
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    2. Diet and Gut Morphology in Primates

      • David J. Chivers, C. M. Hladik
      Pages 213-230

    3. Comparative Functional Morphology of Maximum Mandibular Opening (Gape) in Primates

      • Richard J. Smith
      Pages 231-255

    4. Functional Aspects of Primate Jaw Morphology

      • Karen Hiiemae
      Pages 257-281

    5. Chewing It over: Basic Principles of Food Breakdown

      • P. W. Lucas, D. A. Luke
      Pages 283-301

    6. Tooth Morphology and Dietary Specialization

      • Wolfgang Maier
      Pages 303-330

    7. Prediction of Primate Diets from Molar Wear Patterns

      • Christine M. Janis
      Pages 331-340

    8. The Microstructure of Primate Dental Enamel

      • Alan Boyde, Lawrence Martin
      Pages 341-367

    9. Stress-Strength Relationships in the Mandibles of Hominoids

      • B. Demes, H. Preuschoft, J. E. A. Wolff
      Pages 369-390

    10. A Theoretical Approach to Solve the Chin Problem

      • Johannes E. A. Wolff
      Pages 391-405
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About this book

This book results from a two-day symposium and three-day workshop held in Cambridge between March 22nd and March 26th 1982 and sponsored by the Primate Society of Great Britain and the Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland. More than 100 primatologists attended the symposium and some 35 were invited to participate in the workshop. Speakers from Prance, Germany, the Netherlands, South Africa and the U. S. A. , as weIl as the U. K. , were invited to contribute. In recent years feeling had strengthened that primatologists in Europe did not gather together sufficiently often. Distinctive tradit­ ions in primatology have developed in Germany, France, the Netherlands, Italy and the U. K. in particular, and it was feIt that attempts to blend them could only benefit primatology. Furthermore, studies of primate ecology, behaviour, anatomy, physiology and evolution have reached the points where further advances depend on inter-disciplinary collaboration. It was resolved to arrange a regular series of round­ table discussions on primate biology in Europe at the biennial meeting of the German Society for Anthropology and Human Genetics in Heidel­ berg in September 1979, where Holger Preuschoft organised sessions on primate ecology and anatomy. In June 1980 Michel Sakka convened a most effective working group in Paris to discuss cranial morphology and evolution. In 1982 it was the turn of the U. K.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England

    David J. Chivers, Alan Bilsborough

  • The Middlesex Hospital Medical School, London, England

    Bernard A. Wood

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Food Acquisition and Processing in Primates

  • Editors: David J. Chivers, Bernard A. Wood, Alan Bilsborough

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-5244-1

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1984

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4757-5246-5Published: 09 February 2013

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4757-5244-1Published: 09 March 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIII, 576

  • Number of Illustrations: 121 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Food Science

  • Industry Sectors: Biotechnology, Chemical Manufacturing, Consumer Packaged Goods, Pharma

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