Anthropoid Origins

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvi

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2. The Early Radiation of Euprimates and the Initial Diversification of Omomyidae

   • Kenneth D. Rose, Marc Godinot, Thomas M. Bown

   Pages 1-28

3. Recently Recovered Specimens of North American Eocene Omomyids and Adapids and Their Bearing on Debates about Anthropoid Origins

   • Herbert H. Covert, Blythe A. Williams

   Pages 29-54

4. Cranial Anatomy of Shoshonius and the Antiquity of Anthropoidea

   • K. Christopher Beard, R. D. E. MacPhee

   Pages 55-97

5. The Messel Primates and Anthropoid Origins

   • Jens Lorenz Franzen

   Pages 99-122

6. Relative Ages of Eocene Primate-Bearing Deposits of Asia

   • Patricia A. Holroyd, Russell L. Ciochon

   Pages 123-141

7. The Asian Origin of Anthropoidea Revisited

   • Russell L. Ciochon, Patricia A. Holroyd

   Pages 143-162

8. Rencunius zhoui, New Primate from the Late Middle Eocene of Henan, China, and a Comparison with Some Early Anthropoidea

   • Philip D. Gingerich, Patricia A. Holroyd, Russell L. Ciochon

   Pages 163-177

9. The Eocene Origin of Anthropoid Primates

   • Elwyn L. Simons, D. Tab Rasmussen, Thomas M. Bown, Prithijit S. Chatrath

   Pages 179-201

10. Eocene Anthropoid Postcrania from the Eayum, Egypt

    • Daniel L. Gebo, Elwyn L. Simons, D. Tab Rasmussen, Marian Dagosto

    Pages 203-233

11. Early North African Primates and Their Significance for the Origin of Simiiformes (= Anthropoidea)

    • Marc Godinot

    Pages 235-295

12. Paleogeography, Paleobiogeography, and Anthropoid Origins

    • Patricia A. Holroyd, Mary C. Maas

    Pages 297-334

13. The Different Meanings of a Tarsioid — Anthropoid Clade and a New Model of Anthropoid Origin

    • D. Tab Rasmussen

    Pages 335-360

14. Dental Evidence for Anthropoid Origins

    • Richard F. Kay, Blythe A. Williams

    Pages 361-445

15. Function and Fusion of the Mandibular Symphysis in Primates

    • Matthew J. Ravosa, William L. Hylander

    Pages 447-468

16. The Craniofacial Evidence for Anthropoid and Tarsier Relationships

    • Callum Ross

    Pages 469-547

17. Anatomy, Antinomies, and the Problem of Anthropoid Origins

    • Matt Cartmill

    Pages 549-566

18. Postcranial Anatomy and the Origin of the Anthropoidea

    • Marian Dagosto, Daniel L. Gebo

    Pages 567-593

19. Primitive Platyrrhines?

    • Susan M. Ford

    Pages 595-673

20. Anthropoid Origins

    • John G. Fleagle, Richard F. Kay

    Pages 675-698

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.

• anatomy
• biogeography
• evolution
• monkeys
• primates
• the origin

• State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, USA

  John G. Fleagle

• Duke University Medical Center, Durham, USA

  Richard F. Kay

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