Research Catalog

Title

Anthropoid origins / edited by John G. Fleagle and Richard F. Kay.

Publication

New York : Plenum Press, [1994], ©1994.

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Additional Authors

• Fleagle, John G.
• Kay, Richard F.

Description

xvi, 708 pages : illustrations; 26 cm.

Series Statement

Advances in primatology

Uniform Title

Advances in primatology.

Subject

• Primates > Evolution > Congresses
• Primates, Fossil > Congresses

Note

• Revised papers from a conference held at Duke University, May 1992.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

• 1. The Early Radiation of Euprimates and the Initial Diversification of Omomyidae / Kenneth D. Rose, Marc Godinot and Thomas M. Bown -- 2. Recently Recovered Specimens of North American Eocene Omomyids and Adapids and Their Bearing on Debates about Anthropoid Origins / Herbert H. Covert and Blythe A. Williams -- 3. Cranial Anatomy of Shoshonius and the Antiquity of Anthropoidea / K. Christopher Beard and R. D. E. MacPhee -- 4. The Messel Primates and Anthropoid Origins / Jens Lorenz Franzen -- 5. Relative Ages of Eocene Primate-Bearing Deposits of Asia / Patricia A. Holrovd and Russell L. Ciochon -- 6. The Asian Origin of Anthropoidea Revisited / Russell L. Ciochon and Patricia A. Holroyd -- 7. Rencunius zhoui, New Primate from the Late Middle Eocene of Henan, China, and a Comparison with Some Early Anthropoidea / Philip D. Gingerich, Patricia A. Holroyd and Russell L. Ciochon.
• 8. The Eocene Origin of Anthropoid Primates: Adaptation, Evolution, and Diversity / Elwyn L. Simons, D. Tab Rasmussen, Thomas M. Bown and Prithijit S. Chatrath -- 9. Eocene Anthropoid Postcrania from the Fayum, Egypt / Daniel L. Gebo, Elwyn L. Simons, D. Tab Rasmussen and Marian Dagosto -- 10. Early North African Primates and Their Significance for the Origin of Simiiformes (= Anthropoidea) / Marc Godinot -- 11. Paleogeography, Paleobiogeography, and Anthropoid Origins / Patricia A. Holroyd and Mary C. Maas -- 12. The Different Meanings of a Tarsoid - Anthropoid Clade and a New Model of Anthropoid Origin / D. Tab Rasmussen -- 13. Dental Evidence for Anthropoid Origins / Richard F. Kay and Blythe A. Williams -- 14. Function and Fusion of the Mandibular Symphysis in Primates: Stiffness or Strength? / Matthew J. Ravosa and William L. Hylander -- 15. The Craniofacial Evidence for Anthropoid and Tarsier Relationships / Callum Ross.
• 16. Anatomy, Antinomies, and the Problem of Anthropoid Origins / Matt Cartmill -- 17. Postcranial Anatomy and the Origin of the Anthropoidea / Marian Dagosto and Daniel L. Gebo -- 18. Primitive Platyrrhines? Perspectives on Anthropoid Origins from Platyrrhine, Parapithecid, and Preanthropoid Posteronia / Susan M. Ford -- 19. Anthropoid Origins: Past, Present, and Future / John G. Fleagle and Richard F. Kay.

ISBN

0306447916

LCCN

94043006

OCLC

• 31607910
• ocm31607910

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries