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Species, Species Concepts and Primate Evolution

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  • © 1993

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Editors:
  1. William H. Kimbel

    1. Institute of Human Origins, Berkeley, USA

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  2. Lawrence B. Martin

    1. State University of New York, Stony Brook, USA

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Part of the book series: Advances in Primatology (AIPR)

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Table of contents (21 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Species in Evolutionary Theory

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. What, If Anything, Is a Species?

      • Niles Eldredge
      Pages 3-20

    3. Species Concepts

      • Frederick S. Szalay
      Pages 21-41

    4. Primates and Paradigms

      • J. C. Masters
      Pages 43-64

  3. Speciation and Variation among the Living Primates

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 65-65
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    2. Species, Subspecies, and Baboon Systematics

      • Clifford J. Jolly
      Pages 67-107

    3. Speciation in Living Hominoid Primates

      • Colin P. Groves
      Pages 109-121

    4. Geographic Variation in Primates

      • Gene H. Albrecht, Joseph M. A. Miller
      Pages 123-161

    5. Speciation and Morphological Differentiation in the Genus Lemur

      • Ian Tattersall
      Pages 163-176

    6. Squirrel Monkey (Genus Saimiri) Taxonomy

      • Robert K. Costello, C. Dickinson, A. L. Rosenberger, S. Boinski, Frederick S. Szalay
      Pages 177-210

    7. Measures of Dental Variation as Indicators of Multiple Taxa in Samples of Sympatric Cercopithecus Species

      • Dana A. Cope
      Pages 211-237

    8. Catarrhine Dental Variability and Species Recognition in the Fossil Record

      • J. Michael Plavcan
      Pages 239-263

    9. Multivariate Craniometric Variation in Chimpanzees

      • Brian T. Shea, Steven R. Leigh, Colin P. Groves
      Pages 265-296

  4. Species and Species Recognition in the Primate Fossil Record

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 297-297
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    2. Species Concepts and Species Recognition in Eocene Primates

      • Kenneth D. Rose, Thomas M. Bown
      Pages 299-330

    3. Anagenetic Angst

      • Leonard Krishtalka
      Pages 331-344

    4. Cladistic Concepts and the Species Problem in Hominoid Evolution

      • Terry Harrison
      Pages 345-371

    5. Species Discrimination in Proconsul from Rusinga and Mfangano Islands, Kenya

      • M. F. Teaford, A. Walker, G. S. Mugaisi
      Pages 373-392

    6. Species Recognition in Middle Miocene Hominoids

      • Lawrence B. Martin, Peter Andrews
      Pages 393-427
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About this book

A world of categones devmd of spirit waits for life to return. Saul Bellow, Humboldt's Gift The stock-in-trade of communicating hypotheses about the historical path of evolution is a graphical representation called a phylogenetic tree. In most such graphics, pairs of branches diverge from other branches, successively marching across abstract time toward the present. To each branch is tied a tag with a name, a binominal symbol that functions as does the name given to an individual human being. On phylogenetic trees the names symbolize species. What exactly do these names signify? What kind of information is communicated when we claim to have knowledge of the following types? "Tetonius mathewzi was ancestral to Pseudotetonius ambiguus. " "The sample of fossils attributed to Homo habzlis is too variable to contain only one species. " "Interbreeding populations of savanna baboons all belong to Papio anubis. " "Hylobates lar and H. pileatus interbreed in zones of geographic overlap. " Whilethere is nearly universal agreement that the notion of the speczes is fundamental to our understanding of how evolution works, there is a very wide range of opinion on the conceptual content and meaning of such particular statements regarding species. This is because, oddly enough, evolutionary biolo­ gists are quite far from agreement on what a species is, how it attains this status, and what role it plays in evolution over the long term.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Institute of Human Origins, Berkeley, USA

    William H. Kimbel

  • State University of New York, Stony Brook, USA

    Lawrence B. Martin

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Species, Species Concepts and Primate Evolution

  • Editors: William H. Kimbel, Lawrence B. Martin

  • Series Title: Advances in Primatology

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-3745-2

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1993

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-306-44297-1Published: 30 April 1993

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4899-3747-6Published: 17 December 2013

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4899-3745-2Published: 18 December 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVI, 560

  • Topics: Evolutionary Biology, Zoology

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