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Old World Monkeys

¹ Department of Anthropology University of California Davis, CA 95616

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OLD WORLD MONKEYS

Paul F. Whitehead and Clifford J. Jolly (Editors), 2000, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 528 p. (Hardcover $115) ISBN: 0-521-57124-3.

Old World monkeys (Order Primates; Superfamily Cercopithecoidea) are the most numerous and diverse group of living African and Asian primates, and they are found frequently in Plio-Pleistocene deposits throughout the Old World including Europe. Their fossil representatives are useful in biostratigraphic and paleoenvironmental reconstructions. Studies of cercopithecoids contribute richly to evolutionary biology, in general, and particularly to human evolutionary biology. Except for apes, they are our closest biological relatives; they experience their world with human-like vision and dexterity. They shared our ancestors' habitat extensively: hominid fossil sites usually contain lots of monkeys and pitifully few humans. It is humbling to realize how rare ancient people were and how successfully our monkey cousins flourished in the Plio-Pleistocene. Only by the close of the Pleistocene did the hominids begin to exert their hegemony on the world.

This collection of 19 papers explores the biology of this successful and diverse group. There are 27 authors whose affiliations include departments of zoology, anthropology, conservation, biology, anatomy, genetics, psychology, neuropsychiatry, and primatology. The papers are original contributions that explore many themes including . . . [Full Text of this Article]