Anthropoid Origins New Visions

Anthropoid Origins New Visions / edited by Callum F. Ross, Richard F. Kay.

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Ross, Callum F. (Editor), Kay, Richard F. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Springer US : Imprint: Springer, 2004.
Edition:1st ed. 2004.
Series:Developments in Primatology: Progress and Prospects,
Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Neurosciences.
Anthropology.
Evolutionary biology.
Paleontology .
Human anatomy.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1: Introduction
  • 1. Evolving Perspectives of Anthropoidea
  • 2: Anthropoid Evolutionary Relationships
  • Molecular Phylogeny and Dating of Early Primate Divergences
  • Molecular Cladistic Markers and the Infraordinal Phylogenetic Relationships of Primates
  • The Ancestral Genomes in Primate Phylogeny and Origins: A Molecular Cytogenetic Perspective
  • Anthropoid Origins: A Phylogenetic Analysis
  • 3: Fossil Anthropoids and the Biogeography of Anthropoid Origins
  • Does Overlap Among the Adaptive Radiations of Omomyoids, Adapoids, and Early Anthropoids Cloud our Understanding of Anthropoid Origins?
  • 7. Phylogenetic, Biogeographic, and Adaptive Implications of New Fossil Evidence Bearing on Crown Anthropoid Origins and Early Stem Catarrhine Evolution
  • 8. The Cranium and Adaptations of Parapithecus grangeri a Stem Anthropoid from the Fayum Oligocene of Egypt
  • 9. The Primate-Bearing Pondaung Formation in the Upland Area, Northwest of Central Myanmar
  • 10. A Review of the Large-Bodied Pondaung Primates of Myanmar
  • 11. Eocene Large-Bodied Primates of Myanmar and Thailand: Morphological Considerations and Phylogenetic Affinities
  • 12. The Pondaung Primates, Enigmatic “Possible Anthropoids” from the Latest Middle Eocene, Central Myanmar
  • The Morphology of Two Maxillae of Pondaung Primates (Pondaungia cotteri and Amphipithecus mogaungensis) (middle Eocene, Myanmar)
  • Siamopithecus eocaenus, Anthropoid Primate from the Late Eocene of Krabi, Thailand
  • 15. Anthropoid Origins: Postcranial Evidence from the Eocene of Asia
  • 4: Evolution of Anthropoid Adaptations
  • 16. Evidence for Early Anthropoid Social Behavior
  • function and Fusion of the Mandibular Symphysis in Mammals: A Comparative and Experimental Perspective
  • 18. The Distribution and Size of Retinal Ganglion Cells in Microcebus murinus, Cheirogaleus medius, and Tavsius syrichta: Implications for the Evolution of Sensory Systems in Primates
  • The Tarsier Fovea: Functionless Vestige or Nocturnal Adaptation?
  • 20. The Evolution of High Visual Acuity in the Anthropoidea
  • 21. Endocranial Volume and Optic Foramen Size in Pampithecus grangeri
  • Color as an Indicator of Food Quality to Anthropoid Primates: Ecological Evidence and an Evolutionary Scenario
  • 23. Photopigment Variations and the Evolution of Anthropoid Vision
  • 24. Mosaic Evolution of Activity Pattern, Diet, and Color Vision in Haplorhine Primates
  • 5: The Future of Anthropoid Origins
  • Anthropoid origins: Retrospective and Prospective.

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