Primate origins : adaptations and evolution / edited by Matthew J. Ravosa and Marian Dagosto.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ravosa, Matthew J.

Dagosto, Marian

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Series:

Developments in primatology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Primates.

Adaptation, Physiological.

Evolution.

Phylogeny.

Primates--Evolution.

Primates, Fossil.

Primates--Phylogeny.

Medical Subjects:

Primates.

Adaptation, Physiological.

Evolution.

Phylogeny.

Physical Description:

xxx, 829 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Springer, [2007]

Summary:

This book updates, summarizes and synthesizes past and current research regarding the origin of the Order Primates. When did Primates arise? To what group of mammals are they most closely related? What is the functional and adaptive meaning of their constellation of derived characteristics? The papers in this volume examine hypotheses that have dominated our notions regarding early primate evolution and by coupling this with an emergent body of novel evidence due to new fossil discoveries and technological and methodological advances, provide a long overdue multidisciplinary reanalysis of the suite of derived life history, socioecological, neural, visual, circumorbital, locomotor, postural and masticatory specializations of the first primates. This integrative neontological and paleontological perspective is critical for understanding major behavioral and morphological transformations during the later evolution of higher primate clades. Primate Origins: Adaptations and Evolution is ideal for advanced undergraduates, graduate students and professionals in the fields of primatology, anthropology, mammalogy, and paleontology.

Contents:

Supraordinal relationships of primates and their time of origin

A molecular classification for the living orders of placental mammals and the phylogenetic placement of primates / MS Springer, WJ Murphy, E Eizirik, O Madsen, M Scally, CJ Douady, EC Teeling, MJ Stanhope, WW de Jong, & SJ O'Brien

New light on the dates of primate origins and divergence / C Soligo, OA Will, S Tavaré, CR Marshall, & RD Martin

The postcranial morphology of Ptilocercus lowii (Scandentia, Tupaiidae) and its implications for primate supraordinal relationships / EJ Sargis

Primate origins : a reappraisal of historical data favoring tupaiid affinities / M Godinot

Primate taxonomy, plesiadapiforms, and approaches to primate origins / MT Silcox

Adaptations and evolution of the cranium

Jaw-muscle function and the origin of primates / CJ Vinyard, MJ Ravosa, SH Williams, CE Wall, KR Johnson, & WL Hylander

Were basal primates nocturnal? Evidence from eye and orbit shape / CF Ross, MI Hall & CP Heesy

Oculomotor stability and the functions of the postorbital bar and septum / CP Heesy, CF Ross & B Demes

Primate origins and the function of the circumorbital region : what's load got to do with it? / MJ Ravosa, DG Savakova, KR Johnson, & WL Hylander

Adaptations and evolution of the postcranium

Origins of grasping and locomotor adaptations in primates : comparative and experimental approaches using an opossum model / P Lemelin & D Schmitt

Evolvability, limb morphology, and primate origins / MW Hamrick

Primate gaits and primate origins / M Cartmill, P Lemelin, & D Schmitt

Morphological correlates of forelimb protraction in quadrupedal primates / SG Larson

Ancestral locomotor modes, placental mammals, and the origin of euprimates : lessons from history / FS Szalay

The postcranial morphotype of primates / M Dagosto

New skeletons of Paleocene-Eocene plesiadapiformes : a diversity of arboreal positional behaviors in early primates / JI Bloch & DM Boyer

Adaptations and evolution of the brain, behavior, physiology, and ecology

Start small and live slow : encephalization, body size, and life history strategies in primate origins and evolution / BT Shea

Evolutionary specializations of primate brain systems / TM Preuss

New views on the origin of primate social organization / AE Müller, C Soligo, & U Thalmann

Primate bioenergetics : an evolutionary perspective / JJ Snodgrass, WR Leonard, & ML Robertson

Episodic molecular evolution of some protein hormones in primates and its implications for primate adaptation / S Yi & W-H Li

Parallelisms among primates and possums / DT Rasmussen & RW Sussman

Perspectives on primate color vision / PW Lucas, NJ Dominy, D Osorio, W Peterson-Pereira, P Riba-Hernandez, S Solis-Madrigal, KE Stoner, & N Yamashita

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

ISBN:

9780387303352

0387303359

OCLC:

76941819

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