By Shawn M. Lehman, John G Fleagle
Biogeography, the research of the distribution of organisms over the skin of the earth, performs a crucial position in our realizing of just about all features of the biology of primates and different animals, together with systematics, mechanisms of speciation, inhabitants genetics and demography. The distribution of primates relative to points of weather and habitat, together with altitude, woodland variety, and nutrition availability, kinds the root for our realizing of ecological and behavioral variations. The biogeography of primates long ago is an important section of our knowing in their evolutionary background and is an integral part of conservation biology.
This quantity, which brings jointly those papers at the biogeography of primates, previous and current, offers an advent to Primate Biogeography as a self-discipline, illustrates the numerous elements which can impact the distribution of primates, and demonstrates the big variety of methodological ways which are to be had to realizing the distribution of this order.
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