Gene flow happens [0.03%]
基因流动发生了
Anne D Yoder
Anne D Yoder
Debate over what is a species was already considered old hat when Darwin wrote his seminal abstract (as he called it) more than 150 years ago.(1) Endless papers, workshops, and symposia have been presented in an effort to "solve" the specie...
Species concepts, diversity, and evolution in primates: lessons to be learned from mouse lemurs [0.03%]
灵长目的物种概念、多样性及进化:从鼠标狐猴身上得到的启示
Elke Zimmermann,Ute Radespiel
Elke Zimmermann
Humans primarily rely on vision when categorizing the world. If you just look at the same-sized but strikingly differently colored Neotropical poison-dart frogs such as strawberry frogs (Fig. ), you would be convinced that they must belong ...
Anthony B Rylands,Russell A Mittermeier
Anthony B Rylands
Primatology as a discrete branch of science involving the study of primate behavior and ecology took off in the 1960s after discovery of the importance of primates as models for biomedical research and the realization that primates provide ...
Ian Tattersall
Ian Tattersall
Nobody disputes that nature is meaningfully "packaged" in some way. But debate persists over exactly how (and even whether) the boundaries dividing taxa should (can) be drawn. At one end of the scale, some zealots abstrusely deny real exist...
Colin Groves
Colin Groves
Biologists of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries all bandied about the term "species," but very rarely actually said what they meant by it. Often, however, one can get inside their thinking by piecing together some of their ...
Identifying primate species [0.03%]
识别灵长类物种
John G Fleagle
John G Fleagle
From forest fires to fisheries management: anthropology, conservation biology, and historical ecology [0.03%]
从森林大火到渔业管理:人类学、保护生物学和历史生态学
Todd J Braje,Torben C Rick
Todd J Braje
Human-environmental relationships have long been of interest to a variety of scientists, including ecologists, biologists, anthropologists, and many others. In anthropology, this interest was especially prevalent among cultural ecologists o...
Grandmothers and the evolution of human longevity: a review of findings and future directions [0.03%]
关于祖母及其对人类寿命进化的影响的研究回顾及未来展望
Kristen Hawkes,James E Coxworth
Kristen Hawkes
Women and female great apes both continue giving birth into their forties, but not beyond. However humans live much longer than other apes do. Even in hunting and gathering societies, where the mortality rate is high, adult life spans avera...
W Scott McGraw,Lee R Berger
W Scott McGraw
Most scholars agree that avoiding predators is a central concern of lemurs, monkeys, and apes. However, given uncertainties about the frequency with which primates actually become prey, the selective importance of predation in primate evolu...
Kenneth M Weiss
Kenneth M Weiss