Elwyn Simons
Subtitle: a search for origins
By: John G. Fleagle, Christopher C. Gilbert, editors
Contributors: Simons, Elwyn L.
Series: Developments in primatology : progress and prospects; Developments in primatology
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 460
ISBN-13: 9781441925367
Subjects: Evolution; Conservation; Primates; Paleontology; Mammals; Human evolution; Fossil Primates
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Publications by Elwyn Simons through 2006": p. 429-443.
Table of contents: title: Introduction to the festschrift / Fredericka B. Oakley; title: Elwyn LaVerne Simons : a very personal view / Friderun Ankel-Simons; title: A personal reminiscence of Elwyn / David Pilbeam; title: Sir Wilfrid Le Gros Clark : the making of a paleoanthropologist / Bernard Wood; title: Sir Wilfrid Le Gros Clark : personal recollections of Le Gros / Elwyn Simons; title: Human evolution and the challenge of creationism : a speech given at Duke University, September 16, 2005 / John B. Oakley; title: Five decades in the Fayum / Elwyn Simons ... [et al.]; title: Geology, paleoenvironment, and age of Birket Qarun Locality 2 (BQ-2), Fayum Depression, Egypt / Erik R. Seiffert ... [et al.]; title: Eocene and Oligocene mammals of the Fayum, Egypt / Elwyn Simons; title: Early evolution of whales : a century of research in Egypt / Philip D. Gingerich; title: The basicranial anatomy of African Eocene/Oligocene anthropoids : are there any clues for platyrrhine origins? / Richard F. Kay, Elwyn Simons and Jennifer L. Ross; title: Paleontological exploration in Africa : a view from the Rukwa Rift Basin of Tanzania / Nancy J. Stevens ... [et al.]; title: Return to Dor al-Talha : paleontological reconnaissance of the early Tertiary of Libya / D. Tab Rasmussen ... [et al.]; title: Revisiting Haritalyangar, the late Miocene ape locality of India / Rajeev Patnaik; title: Revisiting primate postcrania from the Pondaung Formation of Myanmar : the purported anthropoid astragalus / Gregg F. Gunnell and Russell L. Ciochcon; title: A haplorhine first metatarsal from the Middle Eocene of China / Daniel L. Gebo ... [et al.]; title: New data on Loveina (Primates: Omomyidae) from the early Eocene Wasatch Formation and implications for washakiin relationships / Patricia A. Holroyd and Suzanne G. Strait; title: The behavioral ecology of our earliest hominid ancestors / R.W. Sussman and Donna Hart; title: Decades of lemur research and conservation : the Elwyn Simons influence / Patricia C. Wright; title: Low fetal energy deposition rates in lemurs : another energy conservation strategy / Chris Tilden; title: Old lemurs : preliminary data on behavior and reproduction from the Duke University Primate Center / Linda Taylor; title: Peculiar tooth homologies of the greater bamboo lemur (Prolemur = Hapalemur simus) : when is a paracone not a paracone? / Jukka Jernvall, Christopher C. Gilbert and Patricia C. Wright; title: How big were the "giant" extinct lemurs of Madagascar? / William L. Jungers, Brigitte Demes and Laurie R. Godfrey; title: Ghosts and orphans : Madagascar's vanishing ecosystems / Laurie R. Godfrey ... [et al.]; title: Vicariance vs. dispersal in the origin of the Malagasy mammal fauna / Ian Tattersall; title: On the brink of extinction : research for the conservation of the Tonkin snub-nosed monkey (Rhinopithecus avunculus) / Herbert H. Covert, Le Khac Quyet and Barth W. Wright.