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Title

The primate fossil record / edited by Walter Carl Hartwig.

Publication

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002.

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Additional Authors

Hartwig, Walter Carl, 1964-

Description

xiv, 530 p. : ill.; 28 cm.

Subject

Primates, Fossil

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 457-517) and index.

Contents

The origin of primates / David Tab Rasmussen -- The earliest fossil primates and the evolution of prosimians / Herbert H. Covert -- Adapiformes: phylogeny and adaptation / Daniel L Gebo -- Tarsiiformes: evolutionary history and adaptation / Gregg F. Gunnell and Kenneth D. Rose -- Fossil lorisoids / Erica M. Phillips and Alan Walker -- Quaternary fossil lemurs / Laurie R. Godfrey and William L. Jungers -- The origin and diversification of anthropoid primates: introduction / Marian Dagosto -- Basal anthropoids / K. Christopher Beard -- Platyrrhine paleontology and systematics: the paradigm shifts / Alfred L. Rosenberger -- Early platyrrhines of southern South America / John G. Fleagle and Marcelo F. Tejedor -- Miocene platyrrhines of the northern neotropics / Walter Carl Hartwig and D. Jeffrey Meldrum -- Extinct Quaternary platyrrhines of the Greater Antilles and Brazil / Ross D. E. MacPhee and Ines Horovitz -- Early catarrhines of the African Eocene and Oligocene / David Tab Rasmussen -- The Pliopithecoidea / David Begun -- The Victoriapithecidae, Cercopithecoidea / Brenda Benefit and Monte L. McCrossin -- Fossil Old World monkeys: the Late Neogene radiation / Nina G. Jablonski -- Perspectives on the Miocene Hominoidea / David R. Pilbeam -- Late Oligocene to Middle Miocene catarrhines from Afro-Arabia / Terry Harrison -- European hominoids / David Begun -- The hominoid radiation in Asia / Jay Kelley -- Middle and Late Miocene African hominoids / Steven C. Ward and Dana Duren -- Introduction to the fossil record of human ancestry / Henry M. McHenry -- Earliest hominids / Tim D. White -- Early genus Homo / Holly Dunsworth and Alan Walker -- Migrations, radiations and continuity: patterns in the evolution of Middle and Late Pleistocene humans / Fred Smith.

Call Number

JSF 03-78

ISBN

0521663156

LCCN

2001037847

OCLC

47254191

Title

The primate fossil record / edited by Walter Carl Hartwig.

Imprint

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. 457-517) and index.

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Added Author

Hartwig, Walter Carl, 1964-

Research Call Number

JSF 03-78