Contents -- List of Contributors -- List of Figures and Tables -- PART I -- 1. The Groves effect: 50 years of influence on behaviour, evolution and conservation research -- PART II -- 2. Characterisation of the endemic Sulawesi Lenomys meyeri (Muridae, Murinae) and the description of a new species of Lenomys -- 3. Gibbons and hominoid ancestry -- 4. Hurricanes and coastlines: The role of natural disasters in the speciation of howler monkeys -- 5. Adolf Remane: Notes on his work on primates -- 6. Retouch intensity on Quina scrapers at Combe Grenal: A test of the reduction model -- 7. What are species and why does it matter? Anopheline taxonomy and the transmission of malaria -- PART III -- 8. Lamarck on species and evolution -- 9. Naming the scale of nature -- 10. Changes in human tooth-size and shape with the Neolithic transition in Indo-Malaysia -- 11. Variation in the Early and Middle Pleistocene: The phylogenetic relationships of Ceprano, Bodo, Daka, Kabwe and Buia -- 12. Human evolution in Sunda and Sahul and the continuing contributions of Professor Colin Groves -- PART IV -- 13. The domestic and the wild in the Mongolian horse and the takhi -- 14. Rhino systematics in the times of Linnaeus, Cuvier, Gray and Groves -- 15. Conservation consequences of unstable taxonomies: The case of the red colobus monkeys -- 16. The phylogenetic species concept and its role in Southeast Asian mammal conservation -- 17. Conserving gorilla diversity -- 18. The warp and weft: Synthesising our taxonomic tapestry -- Index.