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The Guenons edited by Mary E. Glenn and Marina Cords, Kluwer Academic/Plenum, £89/€140/$137.50, ISBN 0306473461

Tarsiers: Past, present and future edited by Patricia C. Wright, Elywn L. Simons and Sharon Gursky, Rutgers University Press, $75, ISBN 0813532361 Reviewed by Adrian Barnett

BRIGHT, colourful and gregarious fruit-eaters, guenons are almost the dictionary definition of a tropical monkey. To the distraction of many a taxonomist, the guenons are riding the wave of rapid speciation. The Guenons grapples with the problem of sorting this out. There are more than 35 different types of guenon in Africa, many busy jinking across the taxonomic…

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