| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 366 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-351). |
| Note |
Includes indexes. |
| Contents |
Preface; CHAPTER 1 Human Fossils -- The New Revolution; CHAPTER 2 Distinguishing Primates; CHAPTER 3 Mathematical 'Dissection' of Anatomies; CHAPTER 4 Biological 'Meaning' of Structures; CHAPTER 5 Upper Limbs and Tension; CHAPTER 6 Lower Limbs and Leaping; CHAPTER 7 Four Limbs and Quadrupeds; CHAPTER 8 Whole Primates -- Their Arrangement by Anatomies; CHAPTER 9 Whole Anatomies -- Their 'Dissection' by Primates; CHAPTER 10 Human Fossils -- The New Revolution -- Revisited; NOTA BENE; References; General Index; Index of Animals; Author Index. |
| Summary |
This book is an attempt to look broadly at the biological Order of Man. It reviews more than two decades of study of present-day primates using data and methods not hitherto made available in one place nor to the general reader. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Primates -- Anatomy.
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Primates -- Anatomy. |
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Primates -- Anatomy -- Mathematics.
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Primates -- Anatomy -- Mathematics. |
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Biometry -- methods. |
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Primates -- anatomy & histology. |
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Statistics as Topic. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Classification.
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| In: |
HKU Press digital editions. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Oxnard, Charles E., 1933- Order of man. [Hong Kong] : Hong Kong University Press, 1983 9789622091047 (DLC) 84187823 (OCoLC)10870611 |
| ISBN |
9789882202368 (electronic book) |
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9882202365 (electronic book) |
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9622091040 |
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9789622091047 |
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