Primates in Perspective
Primates in Perspective
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DOI：
10.1007/s10764-007-9131-y
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发表时间：
2010-04
影响因子：
2.5
通讯作者：
M. Cords
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作者：
M. Cords
《透视灵长类动物》的编辑旨在为研究生和高年级本科生提供当代灵长类动物研究的全面概述，他们可能会把它作为课堂的一部分来阅读，而研究科学家的观众可能会更有选择性地参与其中。它的物理格式（大页面），团队编辑的性质，部门组织（包括分类学组织的灵长类动物群体的评论），以及有点像灵长类动物协会（Smuts et al.，1986），一本编辑欣赏但不再是最新的书。《透视灵长类》的大多数潜在读者自然会想，它是否会像它的前身那样成功，它在很长一段时间内令人钦佩地发挥了本卷所渴望的双重教学和研究功能。简而言之，我发现《透视灵长类》比《灵长类社会》更不平衡，尽管大多数读者无疑会发现至少有一些部分是有价值和有趣的。本书共44章，由59位作者撰写，分为6个部分，每个部分2-17章。简短的第一部分（背景）以苏斯曼实地研究的有用历史开始，这是灵长类动物学会中没有的。哈特维希简要回顾了灵长类动物进化的研究，承认观点的变化，在本科生容易理解的一章。我发现这两部分（灵长类动物）是这本书中最强的部分。每一组专家的17个章节提供了详细的评论，有充分的参考文献（通常每个100-200），分类学，生态学，生殖生物学，社会行为和保护问题的每一组灵长类动物。这两个类群在分类学上并不等同：例如，每一种类人猿都有自己的章节。尽管如此，分组工作得很好，并允许作者强调一个
The editors of Primates in Perspective aimed to provide a comprehensive overview of contemporary primate research for an audience of graduate and advanced undergraduate students, who would presumably read it as part of a class, and for an audience of research scientists who might dip in more selectively. Its physical format (large pages), team-edited nature, sectional organization (including a taxonomically organized review of primate groups), and somewhat encyclopedic coverage are closely reminiscent of Primate Societies (Smuts et al. 1986), a book the editors admire but which is no longer up to date. Most potential readers of Primates in Perspective will naturally wonder whether it will be as successful as its predecessor, which served admirably and for a long time the dual teaching and research functions to which the present volume aspires. In a nutshell, I found Primates in Perspective substantially more uneven than Primate Societies, though most readers will undoubtedly find at least some parts valuable and interesting. The book’s 44 chapters written by 59 authors are organized into 6 parts, with 2–17 chapters in each. The brief initial Part One (Background) begins with a useful history of field studies by Sussman, something not included in Primate Societies. Hartwig briefly reviews studies of primate evolution, acknowledging changes in perspectives, in a chapter readily accessible to undergraduates. I found Part Two (The Primates) to be the strongest part of the book. Seventeen chapters by experts on each group provide detailed reviews, well-documented with references (typically 100–200 each), of the taxonomy, ecology, reproductive biology, social behavior and conservation concerns for each group of primates. The groups are not taxonomically equivalent: for example, each great ape genus gets its own chapter. Nevertheless, the groupings work well, and allow authors to emphasize a