Contents
List of contributors Acknowledgments Introduction Gorilla biology Multiple perspectives on variation within a genus ANDREA B. TAYLOR and MICHELE L. GOLDSMITH Part 1 Gorilla taxonomy and comparative morphology 1. An introductory perspective Gorillas - How important, how many, how long 2. A history of gorilla taxonomy COLIN P. GROVES 3. Patterns of diversity in gorilla cranial morphology REBECCA M. STUMPF, JOHN D. POLK, JOHN F. OATES, WILLIAM L. JUNGERS, CHRISTOPHER P. HEESY, COLIN P. GROVES, and...
Introduction Gorilla biology Multiple perspectives on variation within a genus
It is perhaps widely appreciated in the realm of primatology that until fairly recently, our perspective on gorillas has been an unbalanced one. Our earliest and most comprehensive accounts of gorillas in the wild can be traced almost entirely to studies of the East African gorillas of the Virunga mountains, Gorilla gorilla beringei or, as it is now being called by some, Gorilla beringei beringei, even though explorers' initial contacts were with the gorillas of West Africa. This is not unlike...
Contributors
Department of Molecular and Biological Sciences University of Stirling Stirling FK9 4LA, U.K. Department of Cell and Neurobiology Keck School of Medicine University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA 90089, U.S.A. Centre de Recherche en Sciences Naturelles Lwiro, D.S. Bukavu Democratic Republic of Congo Mike W. Bruford Cardiff School of Biosciences Cardiff University Cardiff CF1 3TL, U.K. Centre International de Recherches Medicales Franceville CIRMF BP 769 Franceville, Gabon Amos S....
Gorillas How important how many how long
Gorillas rank highly among elephants, pandas, whales, polar bears, lions, orangutans, and other large mammals as awe-inspiring representatives of natura naturans nature as creative and natura naturata nature as created . Like unique, imaginative, stimulating literature Booth, 1988 , one cannot encounter them without being changed in ways that are not easily explained. Indeed, attempts to do so can dilute the wonderful effect of having been in their presence. Earth will be a poorer planet if we...