Primates in History, Myth, Art, and Science

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Table of Contents
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Editors
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Acknowledgements
Introduction
Section I: Lore and Mythology of Non-Human Primates since Antiquity
	Chapter 1 South, Southeast, and East Asia
	Chapter 2 Continental Africa
		2.1 Monkeys in Egypt and Their Influence in the Mediterranean World
		2.2 North Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa: Insights into Human and Non-Human Primate Interactions
	Chapter 3 Madagascar
	Chapter 4 The Americas
	Chapter 5 Non-human Primates in the Ancient Near East, from Protohistory to the First Islamic Caliphate
	Chapter 6 Europe from the Bronze Age (Mid-Third Millennium BCE) to Greco-Roman Times
Section II: The Middle Ages and the Age of exploration in europe and in the Arab World
	Chapter 7 Non-human Primates in Medieval Europe
	Chapter 8 Perception and Description of Non-human Primates in the Arab World
	Chapter 9 Non-human Primates in the ‘Age of Exploration’ (15th and 16th Centuries): Trade, Species, Renaissance Courts, Iconography, and Natural History
Section III: Modern Period (until Darwin)
	Chapter 10 Natural History of Non-Human Primates in the 17th Century: Naturalists, Missionaries, Scientific Expeditions, and Trade
	Chapter 11 Natural History of Primates in the 18th–19th Centuries, before Darwin
	Chapter 12 The Natural History of Great Apes from Gesner to Huxley
Section IV: Our Place in Nature
	Chapter 13 The Contribution of Morphology to Darwin’s Understanding of the Genealogy of Modern Humans
	Chapter 14 How Old and New Lines of Evidence Have Contributed to Our Understanding of the Relationships among Modern Humans and the Great Apes: 1900–2023
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