Comparative Biology and Evolutionary Relationships of Tree Shrews
Tree shrews are small-bodied, scansorial, squirrel-like mammals that occupy a wide range of arboreal, semi-arboreal, and forest floor niches in Southeast Asia and adjacent islands. Comparative aspects of tree shrew biology have been the subject of extensi
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ADVANCES IN PRIMATOLOGY Series Editors: W. PATRICK LUCKETT Creighton University School of Medicine Omaha, Nebraska CHARLES R. NOBACK Columbia University New York, New York Editorial Board: JOHN F. EISENBERG Smithsonian Institution Washington, D.C.
F.A.JENKINS,Jr. Harvard University Cambridge, Massachusetts
MORRIS GOODMAN Wayne State University School of Medicine Detroit, Michigan
FREDERICK S. SZALAY Hunter College New York, New York
mE PRIMATE BRAIN Edited by Charles R. Noback and William Montagna MOLECULAR ANTHROPOLOGY: Genes and Proteins in the Evolutionary Ascent of the Primates Edited by Morris Goodman and Richard E. Tashian SENSORY SYSTEMS OF PRIMATES Edited by Charles R. Noback NURSERY CARE OF NONHUMAN PRIMATES Edited by Gerald C. Ruppenthal COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTIONARY RELATIONSHIPS OF TREE SHREWS Edited by W. Patrick Luckett
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Comparative Biology and Evolutionary Relationships of Tree Shrews
Edited by
w. Patrick Luckett
Creighton University School of Meaiclne Omaha, Nebraska
Plenum Press . New York and London
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Main entry under title: Comparative biology and evolutionary relationships of tree shrews. (Advances in primatology) Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Tupaiidae-Evolution. 2. Mammals-Evolution. I. Luckett, Winter Patrick. II. Series. QL737.P968C65 599.3'3 80-19824 ISBN 978-1-4684-1053-2
ISBN 978-1-4684-1053-2 ISBN 978-1-4684-1051-8 (eBook) 001 10. 1007/978-1-4684-1051-8 © 1980 Plenum Press, New York Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 1980
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Contributors
Percy M. Butler Department of Zoology Royal Holloway College Englefield Green, Surrey England
Gerrell Drawhorn Department of Anthropology University of California, Davis Davis, California Morris Goodman Department of Anatomy Wayne State University School of Medicine Detroit, Michigan
C. B. G. Campbell Department of Medical Neurosciences Division of Neuropsychiatry Walter Reed Army Institute of Research Washington, D. C.
Louis L. Jacobs Department of Geology Museum of Northern Arizona Flagstaff, Arizona
Matt Cartmill Department of Anatomy Duke University Medical Center Durham, North Carolina
W. Patrick Luckett Department of\Anatomy Creighton University Omaha, Nebraska
John E. Cronin Department of Anthropology Peabody Museum Harvard University Cambridge, Massachusetts
R. D. E. MacPhee Department of Anatomy Duke University Medical Center Durham, North Carolina
Howard D
