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Primate Adaptation and Evolution
von: John G. Fleagle
Elsevier Trade Monographs, 1998
ISBN: 9780080492131 , 596 Seiten
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Cover
1
CONTENTS
6
Tables & Illustrations
12
Preface
17
Chapter 1. Adaptation, Evolution, and Systematics
19
Adaptation
19
Evolution
19
Taxonomy and Systematics
23
Bibliography
27
Chapter 2. The Primate Body
29
Size
29
Cranial Anatomy
30
The Brain and Senses
37
The Trunk and Limbs
45
Soft Tissues
54
Growth and Development
57
Bibliography
61
Chapter 3. Primate Lives
65
Primate Habitats
65
Land Use
70
Activity Patterns
70
A Primate Day
73
Primate Diets
73
Locomotion
75
Social Life
77
Individuals, Groups, and Communities
80
Why Primates Live in Groups
81
Primate Life Histories
85
Primate Communities
90
Bibliography
91
Chapter 4. Prosimians
99
Strepsirhines
100
Malagasy Strepsirhines
103
Subfossil Malagasy Prosimians
122
Adaptive Radiation of Malagasy Primates
127
Galagos and Lorises
128
Adaptive Radiation of Galagos and Lorises
134
Phyletic Relationships of Strepsirhines
135
Tarsiers
136
Phyletic Relationships of Tarsiers
138
Bibliography
140
Chapter 5. New World Anthropoids
151
Anatomy of Higher Primates
151
Platyrrhines
154
Adaptive Radiation of Platyrrhines
189
Phyletic Relationships of Platyrrhines
191
Bibliography
192
Chapter 6. Old World Monkeys
203
Catarrhine Anatomy
203
Cercopithecoids
203
Adaptive Radiation of Old World Monkeys
238
Phyletic Relationships of Old World Monkeys
239
Bibliography
241
Chapter 7. Apes and Humans
253
Hominoids
253
Adaptive Radiation of Hominoids
274
Phyletic Relationships of Hominoids
276
Bibliography
277
Chapter 8. Primate Communities
285
Primate Biogeography
285
Ecology and Biogeography
288
Comparing Primate Communities
290
Bibliography
300
Chapter 9. Primate Adaptations
301
Effects of Size
301
Adaptations to Diet
309
Locomotor Adaptations
315
Anatomical Correlates of Social Organization
324
Adaptation and Phylogeny
326
Bibliography
327
Chapter 10. The Fossil Record
333
Geological Time
334
Fossils and Fossilization
338
Paleoenvironments
341
Reconstructing Behavior
342
Paleobiogeography
343
Bibliography
344
Chapter 11. Primate Origins
347
Archontans„Primates and Other Mammals
348
Plesiadapiforms
350
Adaptive Radiation of Plesiadapiforms
360
Plesiadapiforms and Primates
362
The Phylogenetic Origins of Primates among the Archonta
363
The Adaptive Origin of Primates
364
Bibliography
365
Chapter 12. Fossil Prosimians
371
The First Modern Primates
372
The Origin of Prosimians
374
Adapoids
374
Are Adapoids Strepsirhines?
387
Fossil Lorises and Galagos
389
Omomyoids
390
Omomyoids, Tarsiers, and Haplorhines
401
Adaptive Radiations of Eocene Prosimians
403
Phyletic Relationships of Adapids and Omomyids
405
Bibliography
406
Chapter 13. Early Anthropoids
415
Eocene Anthropoids from Asia
415
Eocene and Oligocene Anthropoids from Africa and Arabia
417
Other North African and Arabian Early Anthropoids
433
Early Anthropoid Adaptations
434
Phyletic Relationships of Early Anthropoids
435
Prosimian Origins of Anthropoids
436
Solving Anthropoid Origins
439
Bibliography
439
Chapter 14. Fossil Platyrrhines
445
The Platyrrhine Fossil Record
445
The Earliest Platyrrhines
448
The Patagonian Platyrrhines
449
A More Modern Community
454
Pleistocene Platyrrhines
459
Caribbean Primates
459
Summary of Fossil Platyrrhines
461
Platyrrhine Origins
462
Bibliography
465
Chapter 15. Fossil Apes
471
Latest Oligocene to Middle Miocene Apes from Africa
471
Adaptive Radiation of Proconsulids
482
Phyletic Relationships of Proconsulids and Other African Miocene Apes
483
Eurasian Fossil Apes
485
The Evolution of Living Hominoids
498
Bibliography
501
Chapter 16. Fossil Old World Monkeys
509
Victoriapithecids: The Earliest Old World Monkeys
509
Fossil Cercopithecids
513
Summary of Fossil Cercopithecoids
522
Bibliography
524
Chapter 17. Hominids, the Bipedal Primates
529
Australopithecines
529
Australopithecine Adaptations and Hominid Origins
541
Phyletic Relationships of Early Hominids
547
Early Homo
548
Late Homo
553
Human Phylogeny
557
Humans as an Adaptive Radiation
560
Bibliography
560
Chapter 18. Patterns in Primate Evolution
569
Primate Adaptive Radiations
569
Patterns in Primate Phylogeny
574
Primate Evolution at the Species Level
576
Mosaic Evolution
579
Primate Extinctions
581
Bibliography
585
Glossary
589
Classification of Order Primates
595
Index
599
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