Primate Origins: Adaptations and EvolutionMatthew J. Ravosa, Marian Dagosto Springer Science & Business Media, 5 janv. 2007 - 829 pages 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. |
Table des matières
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New Light on the Dates of Primate Origins and Divergence | 29 |
The Postcranial Morphology of Ptilocercus lowii | 51 |
A Reappraisal of Historical Data | 83 |
Primate Taxonomy Plesiadapiforms and Approaches | 143 |
JawMuscle Function and the Origin of Primates | 179 |
Were Basal Primates Nocturnal? Evidence From Eye | 233 |
Oculomotor Stability and the Functions of | 257 |
Morphological Correlates of Forelimb Protraction | 437 |
Ancestral Locomotor Modes Placental Mammals | 457 |
The Postcranial Morphotype of Primates | 489 |
Encephalization | 583 |
Evolutionary Specializations of Primate Brain Systems | 625 |
New Views on the Origin of Primate Social | 667 |
An Evolutionary Perspective | 703 |
Episodic Molecular Evolution of Some Protein Hormones | 739 |
Primate Origins and the Function of the Circumorbital | 285 |
Origins of Grasping and Locomotor Adaptations | 329 |
Evolvability Limb Morphology and Primate Origins | 381 |
Primate Gaits and Primate Origins | 403 |
Parallelisms Among Primates and Possums | 775 |
Perspectives on Primate Color Vision | 805 |
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Expressions et termes fréquents
adaptations Afrotheria analysis ancestral anthropoids Anthropol arboreal archontan bats Beard behavior Biology Bloch and Boyer Boreoeutheria brain Caluromys Cartmill characters cheirogaleids chewing Chiroptera clade common ancestor comparative cortex cranial Dagosto dental Dermoptera didelphid digits DS gaits early primates ecological Eocene Euarchonta Euarchontoglires euprimates eutherian evidence Evol evolution evolutionary Figure Fleagle forelimb fossil record functional Galago genes Gingerich Godinot grasping Hamrick hindlimb Hylander hypothesis Larson Laurasiatheria Lemelin lemurs limb locomotor MacPhee mammalian marsupials Martin masticatory medial molecular Monodelphis morphology morphotype muscle nocturnal nonprimate Novacek omomyids opossum order Primates Paleocene Paromomyidae paromomyids pattern phalanges phylogenetic phylogeny Phys placental mammals Plenum Press plesiadapids plesiadapiforms Plesiadapis postcranial posterior postorbital bar Primate Locomotion primate origins primates Primatol Primatomorpha prosimians Ptilocercus quadrupedal Ravosa relationships relatively Sargis Scandentia Schmitt Silcox species strepsirrhines studies synapomorphies Szalay taxa taxon temporalis tree shrews Tupaia tupaiids Vertebrate visual Volitantia walking gaits Wible Xenarthra York Zool