Anthropoid origins
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Anthropoid origins
(Advances in primatology)
Plenum Press, c1994
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Revised papers from a conference held at Duke University, May 1992
Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This volume brings together information about recent discoveries and current theories concerning the origin and early evolution of anthropoid primates monkeys, apes, and humans. Although Anthropoidea is one of the most dis tinctive groups of living primates, and the origin of the group is a frequent topic of discussion in the anthropological and paleontological literature, the topic of anthropoid origins has rarely been the foeus of direct discussion in primate evolution. Rather, diseussion of anthropoid origins appears as a ma jor side issue in volumes dealing with the origin of platyrrhines (Ciochon and Chiarelli, 1980), in discussions about the phylogenetic position of Tarsius, in descriptions of early anthropoid fossils, and in descriptions and revisions of various fossil prosimians. As a result, the literature on anthropoid origins has a long history of argument by advocacy, in which scholars with different views have expounded individual theories based on a small bit of evidence at hand, often with little consideration of alternative views and other types of evidence that have been used in their support. This type of scholarship struck us as a relatively unproductive approach to a critical issue in primate evolution.
Table of Contents
- Dental Evidence for Anthropoid Origins
- R.F. Kay. The Early Radiation of Euprimates and the Initial Diversification of Omomyidae
- K.D. Rose, et al. The Messel Primates and Anthropoid Origins
- J.L. Franzen. Rencunius Zhoui, New Primate from the Late Middle Eocene of Henan, China, and a Comparison with Some Early Anthropoidea
- P.D. Gingerich. Early North African Primates and Their Significance for the Origin of Simiiformes (Anthropoidea)
- M. Godinot. Cranial Anatomy of Shoshonius and the Antiquity of Anthropoidea
- K.C. Beard, R.D.E. MacPhee. Recently Recovered Specimens of North African Eocene Omomyids and Adapids and Their Bearing on Debates about Anthropoid Origins
- H.H. Covert, B.A. Williams. Postcranial Anatomy and the Origin of Anthropoidea
- M. Dagosto, D.L. Gebo. Paleogeography, Paleobiogeography, and Anthropoid Origins
- P.A. Holroyd, M.C. Mass. Relative Ages of Eocene Primatebearing Deposits of Asia
- P.A. Holroyd, R.L. Ciochon. 7 additional articles. Index.
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