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Primate Evolution

Nina G. Jablonski
Professor and Head Department Anthropology at Penn State

 

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Shaping Primate Evolution

 

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CONTRIBUTORS

Gene H. Albrecht
Fred Anapol
Fred L. Bookstein
Matt Cartmill
George Chaplin
Robin H. Crompton
Willem de Winter
Brigitte Demes
John G. Fleagle
Bruce Gelvin
Rebecca Z. German
J. Patrick Gray
Walter S. Greaves
Colin P. Groves
Michael M. Günther
William L. Hylander
Nina G. Jablonski
Kirk R. Johnson
Françoise Jouffroy



D. Casey Kerrigan
Robert S. Kidd
Peter W. Lucas
Monique F. Médina
Joseph M.A. Miller
Paul O'Higgins
Charles Oxnard
Ruilang L. Pan
Matthew J. Ravosa
Kaye E. Reed
F. James Rohlf
Callum F. Ross
Russell Savage
Nazima Shahnoor
Jack T. Stern, Jr.
Christopher Vinyard
Christine E. Wall
Weijie Wang
Yu Li

 

CONTENTS

Preface: shaping primate evolution
Fred Anapol, Rebecca Z. German & Nina G. Jablonski

Chapter 1 Charles Oxnard: an appreciation
Matt Cartmill

PART I CRANIOFACIAL FORM AND VARIATION
Chapter 2 The ontogeny of sexual dimorphism: the implications of longitudinal vs. cross-sectional data for studying heterochrony in mammals
Rebecca Z. German

Chapter 3 Advances in the analysis of form and pattern: facial growth in African colobines
Paul O'Higgins & Ruliang L. Pan

Chapter 4 Cranial variation among the Asian colobines
Ruliang L. Pan & Colin P. Groves

Chapter 5 Craniometric variation in early Homo compared to modern gorillas: a population-thinking approach
Joseph M A. Miller, Gene H. Albrecht & Bruce R. Gelvin

PART II ORGAN STRUCTURE, FUNCTION, AND BEHAVIOR
Chapter 6 Fiber architecture, muscle function, and behavior: gluteal and hamstring muscles of semiterrestrial and arboreal guenons
Fred Anapol, Nazima Shahnoor & J. Patrick Gray

Chapter 7 Comparative fiber-type composition and size in the antigravity muscles of primate limbs
Françoise K. Jouffroy & Monique F. Médina

Chapter 8 On the nature of morphology: selected canonical variates analyses of the hominoid hindtarsus and their interpretation
Robert S. Kidd

Chapter 9 Plant mechanics and primate dental adaptations: an overview Peter W. Lucas Chapter 10 Convergent evolution in brain "shape" and locomotion in primates
Willem de Winter

PART III IN VIVO ORGANISMAL VERIFICATION OF FUNCTIONAL MODELS
Chapter 11 Jaw adductor force and symphyseal fusion
William L. Hylander, Christopher J. Vinyard, Matthew J. Ravosa, Callum F. Ross, Christine E. Wall & Kirk R. Johnson

Chapter 12 Hind limb drive, hind limb steering? Functional differences between fore and hind limbs in chimpanzee quadrupedalism
Yu Li, Robin H. Crompton, Weijie Wang, Russell Savage & Michael M. Günther

PART IV THEORETICAL MODELS IN EVOLUTIONARY MORPHOLOGY
Chapter 13 Becoming bipedal: how do theories of bipedalization stand up to anatomical scrutiny?
Nina G. Jablonski & George Chaplin

Chapter 14 Modeling human walking as an inverted pendulum of varying length
Jack T. Stern, Jr., Brigitte Demes & D. Casey Kerrigan

Chapter 15 Estimating the line of action of posteriorly inclined resultant jaw muscle forces in mammals using a model that minimizes functionally important distances in the skull
Walter Stalker Greaves

PART V PRIMATE DIVERSITY AND EVOLUTION
Chapter 16 The evolution of primate ecology: patterns of geography and phylogeny
John G. Fleagle & Kaye E. Reed

Suggested Citation: ANAPOL, FRED, REBECCA Z. GERMAN AND NINA G. JABLONSKI (eds.). 2004. Shaping Primate Evolution. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. 442 pp.

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