Primate phylogeny from a human perspective
Subtitle: a study based on the immunological technique of comparative determinant analysis (CDA)
By: by Klausdieter Bauer and Arnd Schreiber.
Contributors: Schreiber, A.
Publisher: G. Fischer
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Stuttgart; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 176
Subjects: Blood proteins -- Evolution.; Antigenic determinants -- Evolution.; Primates -- Evolution.; Phylogeny.; Physiology, Comparative.
Description: Comparative Determinant Analysis of 69 primate plasma proteins reveals 321 antigenic determinants for phylogenetic inference. These determinants, which are discrete characters with innate phylogenetic polarity, suggest paraphyletic cladogenesis of strepsirhine prosimians and of New World monkeys, and firmly establish the chimpanzee as man's closest relative. Divergence dates of primate clades are estimated by the molecular clock approach.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [147]-162) and indexes.
"This is publication no. 565 of the Duke University Primate Centre, Durham, N.C."--T.p. verso.