Ravosa / Dagosto Primate Origins: Adaptations and Evolution

2007
ISBN: 978-0-387-33507-0
Verlag: Springer US
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 830 Seiten

Reihe: Developments in Primatology: Progress and Prospects

This book provides a novel focus on adaptive explanations for cranial and postcranial features and functional complexes, socioecological systems, life history patterns, etc. in early primates. It further offers a detailed rendering of the phylogenetic affinities of such basal taxa to later primate clades as well as to other early/recent mammalian orders. In addition to the strictly paleontological or systemic questions regarding Primate Origins, the editors concentrate on the adaptive significance of primate characteristics. Thus, the book provides the broadest possible perspective on early primate phylogeny and the adaptive uniqueness of the Order Primates.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dagosto, Marian

Ravosa, Matthew J.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;CONTENTS;6
2;CONTRIBUTORS;18
3;PREFACE;22
4;INTRODUCTIONS FOR SECTIONS I–IV;26
5;A Molecular Classification for the Living Orders of Placental Mammals and the Phylogenetic Placement of Primates;32
6;New Light on the Dates of Primate Origins and Divergence;60
7;The Postcranial Morphology of Ptilocercus lowii ( Scandentia, Tupaiidae) and Its Implications for Primate Supraordinal Relationships;81
8;Primate Origins: A Reappraisal of Historical Data Favoring Tupaiid Affinities;113
9;Primate Taxonomy, Plesiadapiforms, and Approaches to Primate Origins;173
10;Jaw-Muscle Function and the Origin of Primates;209
11;Were Basal Primates Nocturnal? Evidence from Eye and Orbit Shape;262
12;Oculomotor Stability and the Functions of the Postorbital Bar and Septum;286
13;Primate Origins and the Function of the Circumorbital Region: What Is Load Got to Do with It?;313
14;Origins of Grasping and Locomotor Adaptations in Primates: Comparative and Experimental Approaches Using an Opossum Model;357
15;Evolvability, Limb Morphology, and Primate Origins;409
16;Primate Gaits and Primate Origins;430
17;Morphological Correlates of Forelimb Protraction in Quadrupedal Primates;463
18;Ancestral Locomotor Modes, Placental Mammals, and the Origin of Euprimates: Lessons from History;483
19;The Postcranial Morphotype of Primates;514
20;New Skeletons of Paleocene- Eocene Plesiadapiformes: A Diversity of Arboreal Positional Behaviors in Early Primates;560
21;Start Small and Live Slow: Encephalization, Body Size, and Life History Strategies in Primate Origins and Evolution;607
22;Evolutionary Specializations of Primate Brain Systems;648
23;New Views on the Origin of Primate Social Organization;699
24;Primate Bioenergetics: An Evolutionary Perspective;724
25;Episodic Molecular Evolution of Some Protein Hormones in Primates and Its Implications for Primate Adaptation;759
26;Parallelisms Among Primates and Possums;794
27;Perspectives on Primate Color Vision;823
28;TAXON INDEX;838