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Product Description: However well the anatomy of the gastrointestinal tracts of a wide range of mammals are described and quantified, there can be no real explanation of observed patterns without consideration of the mechanical and chemical properties of the food consumed, and digestive stages involved in its processing...read more
By David J. Chivers (editor) and Peter Langer (editor)
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Paperback:

9780521020855 | Cambridge Univ Pr, October 6, 2005, cover price $88.00 | About this edition: However well the anatomy of the gastrointestinal tracts of a wide range of mammals are described and quantified, there can be no real explanation of observed patterns without consideration of the mechanical and chemical properties of the food consumed, and digestive stages involved in its processing.

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Describes how gorillas and chimpanzees live, the differences between the two primates, how they are threatened by poachers and the clearance of tropical forests which are their homes, and discusses different types of lizards, where they live, and how they survive, and identifies endangered species.
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Hardcover:

9789700305264 | Fernandez USA Pub Co, December 1, 1994, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Describes how gorillas and chimpanzees live, the differences between the two primates, how they are threatened by poachers and the clearance of tropical forests which are their homes, and discusses different types of lizards, where they live, and how they survive, and identifies endangered species.

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Product Description: The hand commonly is considered to have exerted great influence on the evolution of typically human features, like upright posture, stereoscopic vision, "manipulative" handling of parts of the environment. The hands of the other primates are not less closely related to the necessities of life than in humans...read more
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Hardcover:

9780387823850 | Springer Verlag, August 1, 1993, cover price $165.00 | About this edition: The hand commonly is considered to have exerted great influence on the evolution of typically human features, like upright posture, stereoscopic vision, "manipulative" handling of parts of the environment.

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By Alan Bilsborough (editor), David J. Chivers (editor) and Bernard A. Wood (editor)
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9780306417016 | Plenum Pub Corp, June 1, 1984, cover price $229.50

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By David J. Chivers (editor)
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9780306406263 | Plenum Pub Corp, January 1, 1981, cover price $156.00

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