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Academic & Professional Books  Evolutionary Biology  Evolution

Major Topics in Primate and Human Evolution

Edited By: BA Woods
364 pages, Illus, diagrams, tabs
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The fragmentary fossil record of primates and hominids has generated fundamental, and often well publicised, differences of opinion about their evolution.

The objective of this book, based upon a joint symposium of the Anatomical Society and Primate Society of Great Britain, is to present a review of the major problem areas, emphasising both neontology and palaeontology and aimed specifically to meet the requirements of students. For some issues, leading proponents of `rival' schools present their viewpoint; for others, distinguished contributors have reviewed a particularly important or controversial problem, presenting non-partisan objective analysis.

By including papers that adopt contrasting opinions towards the reconstruction of evolutionary relationships and by incorporating the interpretations of the fossil evidence, this volume provides a valuable synthesis of the thinking about primate and human palaeontology. Previously published in 1986.

Contents

List of contributors; Preface; 1. Primates: a definition R. D. Martin; 2. Plesiadapis and the delineation of the order Primates P. D. Gingerich; 3. The relationships of the Tarssiiformes: a review of the case for the Haplorhini L. C. Aiello; 4. Platyrrhines, catarrhines and the anthropoid transition A. L. Rosenberger; 5. Problems of dental evolution in the higher primates P. M. Butler; 6. Molecular evidence for catarrhine evolution P. Andrews; 7. The fossil record of early catarrhine evolution J. G. Fleagle; 8. Molecular sequences and hominoid phylogeny M. J. Bishop and A. E. Friday; 9. Hominoid evolution: molecular and palaeontological patterns M. Ruvolo and D. Pilbeam; 10. Relationships among extant and extinct great apes and humans L. Martin; 11. Bipedalism: pressures, origins and modes M. H. Day; 12. Dental trends in the australopithecones: the allometry of mandibular molar dimensions W. L. Jungers and F. E. Grine; 13. Australopithecus: grade or clade? B. A. Wood and A. T. Chamberlain; 14. Homo and Paranthropus: similarities in the cranial base and developing dentition M. C. Dean; 15. The credibility of Homo habilis C. B. Stringer; 16. The origin and fate of Homo erectus A. Bilsborough and B. A. Wood; 17. The origin of Homo sapiens: the genetic evidence J. S. Jones; 18. The origin of Homo sapiens: the fossil evidence D. R. Pilbeam; Author index; Subject index.

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Edited By: BA Woods
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