This comprehensive source introduces the reader to Primate Biogeography as a discipline. Primate Biogeography is a subject rarely addressed as a discipline in its own right. This book highlights the many factors that may influence the distribution of primates, and reveals the wide range of approaches that are available to understanding the distribution of this order. The biogeography of primates in the past is a major component of our understanding of their evolutionary history and is an essential component of conservation biology. This book will appeal to primatologists, physical anthropologists, zoologists, and undergraduates in these areas.

Provides an introduction to Primate Biogeography as a discipline Draws attention to the many factors that may influence the distribution of primates Demonstrates the wide range of approaches that are available to understanding the distribution of this order Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Biogeography and Primates: A Review.- Biogeography and Primates: A Review.- Neotropics.- Nested Distribution Patterns and the Historical Biogeography of the Primates of Guyana.- Genetic Evidence on the Historical Biogeography of Central American Howler Monkeys.- Ecological Biogeography of Primates in Guyana.- Africa.- Contrasting Phylogeographic Histories of Chimpanzees in Nigeria and Cameroon: A Multi-Locus Genetic Analysis.- Geographic Variation in Savanna Baboon (Papio) Ecology and its Taxonomic and Evolutionary Implications.- Biogeography and Evolution of the Cercocebus-Mandrillus Clade: Evidence from the Face.- Madagascar.- Lemur Biogeography.- Mouse Lemur Phylogeography Revises a Model of Ecogeographic Constraint in Madagascar.- Abiotic and Biotic Factors as Predictors of Species Richness on Madagascar.- Asia.- The Geography of Mammals and Rivers in Mainland Southeast Asia.- Primate Biogeography and Ecology on the Sunda Shelf Islands: A Paleontological and Zooarchaeological Perspective.- Primate Biogeography in Deep Time.- The Biogeography of Primate Evolution: The Role of Plate Tectonics, Climate and Chance.- Biogeographic Origins of Primate Higher Taxa.- Mammalian Biogeography and Anthropoid Origins.- Continental Paleobiogeography as Phylogenetic Evidence.