Bones, Genetics, and Behavior of Rhesus Macaques Macaca Mulatta of C
The introduction of rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta) to Cayo Santiago, Puerto Rico in 1938, and the subsequent development of the Caribbean Primate Research Center (CPRC) for behavioral and biomedical research, has generated an unparalleled resource for p
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Bones, Genetics, and Behavior of Rhesus Macaques Macaca mulatta of Cayo Santiago and Beyond
Editor Qian Wang Division of Basic Medical Sciences Mercer University School of Medicine Macon, GA 31207, USA [email protected]
ISBN 978-1-4614-1045-4 e-ISBN 978-1-4614-1046-1 DOI 10.1007/978-1-4614-1046-1 Springer New York Dordrecht Heidelberg London Library of Congress Control Number: 2011939207 © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2012 All rights reserved. This work may not be translated or copied in whole or in part without the written permission of the publisher (Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 233 Spring Street, New York, NY 10013, USA), except for brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis. Use in connection with any form of information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed is forbidden. The use in this publication of trade names, trademarks, service marks, and similar terms, even if they are not identified as such, is not to be taken as an expression of opinion as to whether or not they are subject to proprietary rights. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
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Foreword
Prefatory Thoughts by Phillip V. Tobias FRS, Hon NAS, Hon FRSSAf: On the 70th Anniversary of the Caribbean Primate Research Center and Its Contributions to Physical Anthropology
I am most appreciative to Dr. Qian Wang for having invited these few random, and even tatterdemalion, thoughts from an octogenarian who, whatever else he may have lost, has retained his sense of wonderment. Like Harry Belafonte – and the West Indies cricket team – I love islands in the sun! I was born by the sea and, wherever one goes on a tolerably small island, one is not far from it. I have happy boyhood memories of little Salisbury Island in Durban Bay, South Africa. My adult reminiscences include tiny Heron Island at the southern end of the Great Barrier Reef, off the coast of Queensland, Australia; the Galapagos Archipelago on the equator in the Pacific Ocean; and the charming Mediterranean islands of Majorca, Sardinia, Sicily, Capri, Crete, the Cyclades, and the Dodecanese. I also must not forget the bigger islands of Japan and New Zealand or the island–continent of Australia, and perhaps I should even include the biggest “islands” of them all: Asia and the vast peninsula of Europe, and the Americas. February 2003 saw me on my first visit to the Caribbean Islands. The International Committee on Anatomical Terminology was meeting on the half-Dutch, half-French, isle of St. Maarten, basking in the unbelievably blue Caribbean Sea. Even as I was writing my report of that visit, the West Indies cricketers were touring South Africa under the captaincy of that brilliant batter, Brian Lara. As with St. Maarten, I have always marveled at how people who dwell on so
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