Our Origins: Discovering Physical Anthropology (Fourth Edition)
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ISBN: 9780393614008
Author: Clark Spencer Larsen
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
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Introduction: Primates are members of a group which forms a biological order. It is a group of species related to lemurs, apes, and monkeys including humans. Primates show a wide variation of morphological characters. Non-human primates show a wide diversity in terms of social organization and behavior.
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