Current controversies about the definitions of taxon names reflect different underlying philosophical perspectives concerning the nature of definitions. The antithetical perspectives, called ...

Evolutionary trends observed over large clades have the potential to mask underlying trends that occur within their constituent subclades. A recent study of encephalization in the Caniformia ...

Reprint of 1939 ed. published in London by Taylor and Fracis, under the patronage of the Secretary of State for India. Contents v. 1. Primates and Carnivora (in part): Families: Felidae and Viverridae ...

Part 2, by W. L. Sclater, Deputy Superintendent of the Indian Museum. "Printed by order of the Trustees." 1. Primates, prosimiae, chiroptera, and insectivora, by John ...

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