Primate evolution and human origins / Russell L. Ciochon and John G. Fleagle.

"Primate Evolution and Human Origins compiles, for the first time, the major ideas and publications that have shaped our current view of the evolutionary biology of the primates and the origin of the human line. Designed for freshmen-to-graduate students in anthropology, paleontology, and biolo...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via Taylor & Francis)
Main Authors:	Ciochon, Russell L. (Author), Fleagle, John G. (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2017.
Subjects:	Primates > Evolution. Human evolution.

Table of Contents:

Part I PRIMATE ORIGINS
chapter 1 Tree Shrew Locomotion and the Origins of Primate Arborealism
chapter 2 Rethinking Primate Origins
chapter 3 Where to Draw the Nonprimate-Primate Taxonomic Boundary
chapter 4 Cranial Morphology and Adaptations of Palaechthon nacimienti and Other Paromomyidae (Plesiadapoidea, Primates), with a Description of a New Genus and Species
chapter 5 The First Radiation-Plesiadapiform Primates
part II EVOLUTION OF PROSIMIANS
chapter 6 Dental and Cranial Adaptations in Eocene Adapidae
chapter 7 The Second Radiation-Prosimians
chapter 8 Vertical Clinging and Leaping-A Newly Recognized Category of Locomotor Behavior of Primates
chapter 9 Evolution of Lorises and Lemurs
chapter 10 Notes on the Cranial Anatomy of the Subfossil Malagasy Lemurs
chapter 11 Adaptive Diversity in Subfossil Malagasy Prosimians
part III ANTHROPOID ORIGINS AND NEW WORLD MONKEYS
chapter 12 On the Tarsiiform Origins of Anthropoidea
chapter 13 Eocene Adapidae, Paleobiogeography, and the Origin of South American Platyrrhini
chapter 14 Relationships, Origins, and History of the Ceboid Monkeys and Caviomorph Rodents: A Modern Reinterpretation
chapter 15 Paleobiogeographic Perspectives on the Origin of the Platyrrhini
chapter 16 The Third Radiation-Higher Primates
chapter 17 Gradistic Views and Adaptive Radiation of Platyrrhine Primates
chapter 18 Callitrichids as Phyletic Dwarfs and the Place of the Callitrichidae in Platyrrhini
part IV THE EVOLUTION OF OLD WORLD MONKEYS AND APES
chapter 19 New Fossil Apes from Egypt and the Initial Differentiation of Hominoidea
chapter 20 The Ecology of Oligocene African Anthropoidea
chapter 21 New Interpretations of the Phyletic Position of Oligocene Hominoids
chapter 22 The Deployment and History of Old World Monkeys: Oligocene Cercopithecoidea
chapter 23 Toward the Origin of the Old World Monkeys
chapter 24 The Postcranium of Miocene Hominoids: Were Dryopithecines Merely ?Dental Apes??
chapter 25 Miocene Hominoid Postcranial Morphology: Monkey-like, Ape-like, Neither, or Both?
chapter 26 Species Diversity and Diet in Monkeys and Apes during the Miocene
part V RAMAPITHECUS AND HUMAN ORIGINS
chapter 27 The Phyletic Position of Ramapithecus
chapter 28 The Earliest Hominids
chapter 29 Rethinking Human Origins
chapter 30 A Late Divergence Hypothesis
chapter 31 The Nut-Crackers-A New Theory of the Adaptations of the Ramapithecinae
chapter 32 The Relationships of Sivapithecus and Ramapithecus and the Evolution of the Orangutan
chapter 33 Ramapithecus and Hominid Origins
part VI EARLY HOMINIDS
chapter 34 Adaptive Radiation in the Australopithecines and the Origin of Man
chapter 35 Competitive Exclusion among Lower Pleistocene Hominids: The Single Species Hypothesis
chapter 36 Australopithecus, Homo erectus, and the Single Species Hypothesis
chapter 37 A Systematic Assessment of Early African Hominids
chapter 38 The Origin of Man
part VII DIVERSE APPROACHES IN HUMAN EVOLUTION
chapter 39 Man's Place in the Phylogeny of the Primates as Reflected in Serum Proteins
chapter 40 A Molecular Approach to the Question of Human Origins
chapter 41 The Seed-Eaters: A New Model of Hominid Differentiation Based on a Baboon Analogy
chapter 42 Darwin's Apes, Dental Apes, and the Descent of Man: Normal Science in Evolutionary Anthropology
chapter 43 Pygmy Chimpanzee as a Possible Prototype for the Common Ancestor of Humans, Chimpanzees, and Gorillas
chapter 44 Hominoid Cladistics and the Ancestry of Modern Apes and Humans.

Primate evolution and human origins / Russell L. Ciochon and John G. Fleagle.

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