Shaping primate evolution
Subtitle: form, function, and behavior
By: edited by Fred Anapol, Rebecca Z. German & Nina G. Jablonski
Series: Cambridge studies in biological and evolutionary anthropology -- 40; Cambridge studies in biological and evolutionary anthropology -- 40.
Publisher: Cambridge
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Cambridge, UK; New York
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 426
ISBN-13: 9780511195723
Subjects: Animal Behavior; Evolution; Animals; NATURE; SCIENCE; Life Sciences; Morphology; Primatology; Zoology; Primates; Physiology
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Table of contents: title: Charles Oxnard : an appreciation / Matt Cartmill; title: The ontogeny of sexual dimorphism : the implications of longitudinal vs. cross-sectional data for studying heterochrony in mammals / Rebecca Z. German; title: Advances in the analysis of form and pattern : facial growth in African colobines / Paul O'Higgins and Ruliang L. Pan; title: Cranial variation among the Asian colobines / Ruliang L. Pan and Colin P. Groves; title: Craniometric variation in early Homo compared to modern gorillas : a population-thinking approach / Joseph M.A. Miller, Gene H. Albrecht and Bruce R. Gelvin; title: Fiber architecture, muscle function and behavior : gluteal and hamstring muscles of semiterrestrial and arboreal guenons / Fred Anapol, Nazima Shahnoor and J. Patrick Gray; title: Comparative fiber-type composition and size in the antigravity muscles of primate limbs / Franc ʹoise K. Jouffroy and Monique F. Me dina; title: On the nature of morphology : selected canonical variates analyses of the hominoid hindtarsus and their interpretation / Robert S. Kidd; title: Plant mechanics and primate dental adaptations : an overview / Peter W. Lucas; title: Convergent evolution in brain shape and locomotion in primates / Willem de Winter; title: Jaw adductor force and symphyseal fusion / William L. Hylander ... [et al.]; title: Hind limb drive, hind limb steering? Functional differences between fore and hind limbs in chimpanzee quadrupedalism / Yu Li ... [et al.]; title: Becoming bipedal : how do theories of bipedalization stand up to anatomical scrutiny? / Nina G. Jablonski and George Chaplin; title: Modeling human walking as an inverted pendulum of varying length / Jack T. Stern Jr., Brigitte Demes and D. Casey Kerrigan.; title: Estimating the line of action of posteriorly inclined resultant jaw muscle forces in mammals using a model that minimizes functionally important distances in the skull / Walter Stalker Greaves; title: The evolution of primate ecology : patterns of geography and phylogeny / John G. Fleagle and Kaye E. Reed; title: Charles Oxnard and the aye-aye : morphometrics, cladistics, and two very special primates / Colin P. Groves; title: From mathematical dissection of anatomies to morphometrics : a twenty-first-century appreciation of Charles Oxnard / Fred L. Bookstein and F. James Rohlf; title: Design, level, interface and complexity : morphometric interpretation revisited / Charles E. Oxnard; title: Postscript and acknowledgements / Charles E. Oxnard.