Shaping Primate Evolution

Form, Function, and Behavior

By: Fred Anapol (Editor), Rebecca Z. German (Editor), Nina G. Jablonski (Editor)

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Shaping Primate Evolution is an edited collection of papers about how biological form is described in primate biology, and the consequences of form for function and behavior. The contributors are highly regarded internationally recognized scholars in the field of quantitative primate evolutionary morphology. Each chapter elaborates upon the analysis of the form-function-behavior triad in a unique and compelling way. This book is distinctive not only in the diversity of the topics discussed, but also in the range of levels of biological organization that are addressed from cellular morphometrics to the evolution of primate ecology. The book is dedicated to Charles E. Oxnard, whose influential pioneering work on innovative metric and analytic techniques has gone hand-in-hand with meticulous comparative functional analyses of primate anatomy. Through the marriage of theory with analytical applications, this volume will be an important reference work for all those interested in primate functional morphology.

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Review of the hardback: '... no scientist has palyed a more vital role to the development of this field than Professor Charles Oxnard. ... a timely contribution to a field that has recently undergone vast methodological upheavals ... will be of particular interest to scholars of functional anatomy, primate and human evolution, and systematics. ... each section is elegantly introduced ... this book is an apt credit to the life-long work of Chalres Oxnard; it has served the difficult task of commemorating the many research interests of one of the most notable contributors to biological anthropology.' Journal of Biological Science

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Non-Fiction Science Biology, Life Sciences Life Sciences in General Evolution Zoology & Animal Sciences Zoology & Vertebrates Zoology & Mammals Primates Animal Behaviour Sociology & Anthropology Anthropology

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Published: 20th May 2004

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List of contributors
Preface: shaping primate evolution
Charles Oxnard: an appreciation
Craniofacial Form and Variation
The ontogeny of sexual dimorphism: the implications of longitudinal vs. cross-sectional data for studying heterochrony in mammals
Advances in the analysis of form and pattern: facial growth in African colobines
Cranial variation among the Asian colobines
Craniometric variation in early Homo compared to modern gorillas: a population-thinking approach
Organ Structure, Function, and Behavior
Fiber architecture, muscle function, and behavior: gluteal and hamstring muscles of semiterrestrial and arboreal guenons
Comparative fiber-type composition and size in the antigravity muscles of primate limbs
On the nature of morphology: selected canonical variates analyses of the hominoid hindtarsus and their interpretation
Plant mechanics and primate dental adaptations: an overview
Convergent evolution in brain 'shape' and locomotion in primates
In Vivo Organismal Verification of Functional Models
Jaw adductor force and symphyseal fusion
Hind limb drive, hind limb steering? Functional differences between fore and hind limbs in chimpanzee quadrupedalism
Theoretical Models in Evolutionary Morphology
Becoming bipedal: how do theories of bipedalization stand up to anatomical scrutiny?
Modeling human walking as an inverted pendulum of varying length
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
Primate Diversity and Evolution
The evolution of primate ecology: patterns of geography and phylogeny
Charles Oxnard and the aye-aye: morphometrics, cladistics, and two very special primates
From 'mathematical dissection of anatomies' to morphometrics: a twenty-first-century appreciation of Charles Oxnard
Design, level, interface, and complexity: morphometric interpretation revisited
Postscript and acknowledgements
Index
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