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Anthropoid Origins

New Visions

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Editors:
  1. Callum F. Ross

    1. Department of Anatomical Sciences, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, USA

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  2. Richard F. Kay

    1. Biological Anthropology and Anatomy, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, USA

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Part of the book series: Developments in Primatology: Progress and Prospects (DIPR)

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Table of contents (25 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxix
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  2. Introduction

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Evolving Perspectives on Anthropoidea

      • Callum F. Ross, Richard F. Kay
      Pages 3-41

  3. Anthropoid Evolutionary Relationships

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 43-43
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    2. Molecular Phylogeny and Dating of Early Primate Divergences

      • Eduardo Eizirik, William J. Murphy, Mark S. Springer, Stephen J. O’Brien
      Pages 45-64

    3. Molecular Cladistic Markers and the Infraordinal Phylogenetic Relationships of Primates

      • Jürgen Schmitz, Hans Zischler
      Pages 65-77

    4. The Ancestral Genomes in Primate Phylogeny and Origins: A Molecular Cytogenetic Perspective

      • Roscoe Stanyon, Gary Stone, Francesca Bigoni
      Pages 79-90

    5. Anthropoid Origins: A Phylogenetic Analysis

      • Richard F. Kay, Blythe A. Williams, Callum F. Ross, Masanaru Takai, Nobuo Shigehara
      Pages 91-135

  4. Fossil Anthropoids and the Biogeography of Anthropoid Origins

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 137-137
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    2. Does Overlap Among the Adaptive Radiations of Omomyoids, Adapoids, and Early Anthropoids Cloud our Understanding of Anthropoid Origins?

      • Herbert H. Covert
      Pages 139-155

    3. Phylogenetic, Biogeographic, and Adaptive Implications of New Fossil Evidence Bearing on Crown Anthropoid Origins and Early Stem Catarrhine Evolution

      • Erik R. Seiffert, Elwyn L. Simons, Cornelia V. M. Simons
      Pages 157-181

    4. The Cranium and Adaptations of Parapithecus grangeri, a Stem Anthropoid from the Fayum Oligocene of Egypt

      • Elwyn L. Simons
      Pages 183-204

    5. The Primate-Bearing Pondaung Formation in the Upland Area, Northwest of Central Myanmar

      • Aye Ko Aung
      Pages 205-217

    6. A Review of the Large-Bodied Pondaung Primates of Myanmar

      • Tin Thein
      Pages 219-247

    7. Eocene Large-Bodied Primates of Myanmar and Thailand: Morphological Considerations and Phylogenetic Affinities

      • Russell L. Ciochon, Gregg F. Gunnell
      Pages 249-282

    8. The Pondaung Primates, Enigmatic “Possible Anthropoids” from the Latest Middle Eocene, Central Myanmar

      • Masanaru Takai, Nobuo Shigehara
      Pages 283-321

    9. The Morphology of Two Maxillae of Pondaung Primates (Pondaungia cotteri and Amphipithecus mogaungensis) (middle Eocene, Myanmar)

      • Nobuo Shigehara, Masanaru Takai
      Pages 323-340

    10. Siamopithecus eocaenus, Anthropoid Primate from the Late Eocene of Krabi, Thailand

      • Yaowalak Chaimanee
      Pages 341-368

    11. Anthropoid Origins: Postcranial Evidence from the Eocene of Asia

      • Daniel L. Gebo, Marian Dagosto
      Pages 369-380

  5. Evolution of Anthropoid Adaptations

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 381-381
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Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Anatomical Sciences, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, USA

    Callum F. Ross

  • Biological Anthropology and Anatomy, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, USA

    Richard F. Kay

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Anthropoid Origins

  • Book Subtitle: New Visions

  • Editors: Callum F. Ross, Richard F. Kay

  • Series Title: Developments in Primatology: Progress and Prospects

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-8873-7

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2004

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-306-48120-8Due: 31 May 2004

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4613-4700-2Published: 19 April 2013

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4419-8873-7Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 1574-3489

  • Series E-ISSN: 1574-3497

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXIX, 749

  • Topics: Neurosciences, Anthropology, Evolutionary Biology, Paleontology, Anatomy

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