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Pp. xv, 583; numerous black-and-white photos, line-drawings, phylogenies and graphs. Publisher's original black cloth lettered in white on the spine, color pictorial dust jacket, lg 8vo. This volume provides a wealth of new information on the origin and deployment of catarrhine primates, biomolecular aspects of primate phylogeny, anatomical correlates of feeding behavior in monkeys and apes, knuckle-walking, bipedalism, and hominid evolution, brain evolution and the evolution of human language. This is part of the World Anthropology series edited by Sol Tax. No ownership marks and no signs of use.