A New take on anthropoid origins
Author | : Elizabeth Culotta |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 2 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Anthropology |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Elizabeth Culotta |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 2 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Anthropology |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Callum Ross |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 800 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 9780306481208 |
This second edition will be an edited volume of interest to those who do research and teach about the evolution of primates. It aims to convey to primatologists, anthropologists, palaeontologists, and neuroscientists the most recent studies of primate phylogeny, the anthropoid fossil record, the evolution of the primate visual system, and the origin of the anthropoid social systems. This title includes a CD-ROM and color figures.
Author | : John G Fleagle |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 712 |
Release | : 2013-11-11 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1475791976 |
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.
Author | : Richard F. Kay |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 8 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Primates, Fossil |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Christopher Beard |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 396 |
Release | : 2004-12-20 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780520940253 |
Taking us back roughly 45 million years into the Eocene, "the dawn of recent life," Chris Beard, a world-renowned expert on the primate fossil record, offers a tantalizing new perspective on our deepest evolutionary roots. In a fast-paced narrative full of vivid stories from the field, he reconstructs our extended family tree, showing that the first anthropoids—the diverse and successful group that includes monkeys, apes, and humans—evolved millions of years earlier than was previously suspected and emerged in Asia rather than Africa. In The Hunt for the Dawn Monkey, Beard chronicles the saga of two centuries of scientific exploration in search of anthropoid origins, from the early work of Georges Cuvier, the father of paleontology, to the latest discoveries in Asia, Africa, and North America's Rocky Mountains. Against this historical backdrop, he weaves the story of how his own expeditions have unearthed crucial fossils—including the controversial primate Eosimias—that support his compelling new vision of anthropoid evolution. The only book written for a wide audience that explores this remote phase of our own evolutionary history, The Hunt for the Dawn Monkey adds a fascinating new chapter to our understanding of humanity's relationship to the rest of life on earth.
Author | : Bozzano G Luisa |
Publisher | : Academic Press |
Total Pages | : 507 |
Release | : 2013-10-22 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1483288501 |
Primate Adaptation and Evolutionis the only recent text published in this rapidly progressing field. It provides you with an extensive, current survey of the order Primates, both living and fossil. By combining information on primate anatomy, ecology, and behavior with the primate fossil record, this book enables students to study primates from all epochs as a single, viable group. It surveys major primate radiations throughout 65 million years, and provides equal treatment of both living and extinct species. ï Presents a summary of the primate fossilsï Reviews primate evolutionï Provides an introduction to the primate anatomyï Discusses the features that distinguish the living groups of primatesï Summarizes recent work on primate ecology
Author | : John G. Fleagle |
Publisher | : Transaction Publishers |
Total Pages | : 428 |
Release | : |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780202368177 |
"[C]overs the whole range of the primate order. [A] very interesting and salutary package. [I]t is valuable to have such classic articles in one easily accessible place." --Nature
Author | : Chris Beard |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 348 |
Release | : 2009-05 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781437966855 |
If the major outlines of human origins are settled, the search for anthropoid origins remains scientifically in its infancy. We remain fairly ignorant of such basic questions as when, where, how, and why our earliest anthropoid ancestors evolved. Paleontology is one of the few academic disciplines in which field exploration remains a fundamental part of the quest to expand knowledge and understanding. This unique combination of the possibility for personal adventure and intellectual fulfillment is what attracted the author to paleontology in the first place. He hopes to impart a fraction of what he has experienced and learned during these past few years in this book. Winner, Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science and the Howells Prize, Amer. Anthropological Assoc. Ill.
Author | : Russell L. Ciochon |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 540 |
Release | : 2013-12-01 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 146843764X |
It is now well known that the concept of drifting continents became an estab lished theory during the 1960s. Not long after this "revolution in the earth sciences," researchers began applying the continental drift model to problems in historical biogeography. One such problem was the origin and dispersal of the New World monkeys, the Platyrrhini. Our interests in this subject began in the late 1960s on different conti nents quite independent of one another in the cities of Florence, Italy, and Berkeley, California. In Florence in 1968, A. B. Chiarelli, through stimulating discussions with R. von Koenigswald and B. de Boer, became intrigued with the possibility that a repositioning of the continents of Africa and South America in the early Cenozoic might alter previous traditional conceptions of a North American origin of the Platyrrhini. During the early 1970s this con cept was expanded and pursued by him through discussions with students while serving as visiting professor at the University of Toronto. By this time, publication of the Journal of Human Evolution was well underway, and Dr. Chiarelli as editor encouraged a dialogue emphasizing continental drift models of primate origins which culminated in a series of articles published in that journal during 1974-75. In early 1970, while attending the University of California at Berkeley, R. L. Ciochon was introduced to the concept of continental drift and plate tectonics and their concomitant applications to vertebrate evolution through talks with paleontologist W. A. Clemens and anthropologist S. L. Washburn.
Author | : Walter Carl Hartwig |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 554 |
Release | : 2002-04-11 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780521663151 |
A comprehensive treatment of primate paleontology. Profusely illustrated and up to date, it captures the complete history of the discovery and interpretation of primate fossils. The chapters range from primate origins to the advent of anatomically modern humans. Each emphasizes three key components of the record of primate evolution: history of discovery, taxonomy of the fossils, and evolution of the adaptive radiations they represent. The Primate Fossil Record summarizes objectively the many intellectual debates surrounding the fossil record and provides a foundation of reference information on the last two decades of astounding discoveries and worldwide field research for physical anthropologists, paleontologists and evolutionary biologists.