Shaping Primate Evolution (eBook, PDF)

Form, Function, and Behavior
Redaktion: Anapol, Fred

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Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Mai 2004
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511192210
• Artikelnr.: 38194867

Inhaltsangabe

List of contributors; Preface: shaping primate evolution Fred Anapol,
Rebecca Z. German and Nina G. Jablonski; 1. Charles Oxnard: an appreciation
Matt Cartmill; Part I. Craniofacial Form and Variation: 2. The ontogeny of
sexual dimorphism: the implications of longitudinal vs. cross-sectional
data for studying heterochrony in mammals Rebecca Z. German; 3. Advances in
the analysis of form and pattern: facial growth in African colobines Paul
O'Higgins and Ruilang L. Pan; 4. Cranial variation among the Asian
colobines Ruilang L. Pan and Colin P. Groves; 5. Craniometric variation in
early Homo compared to modern gorillas: a population-thinking approach
Joseph M. A. Miller, Gene H. Albrecht and Bruce Gelvin; Part II. Organ
Structure, Function, and Behavior: 6. Fiber architecture, muscle function,
and behavior: gluteal and hamstring muscles of semiterrestrial and arboreal
guenons Fred Anapol, Nazima Shahnoor and J. Patrick Gray; 7. Comparative
fiber-type composition and size in the antigravity muscles of primate limbs
Françoise K. Jouffroy and Monique F. Médina; 8. On the nature of
morphology: selected canonical variates analyses of the hominoid hindtarsus
and their interpretation Robert S. Kidd; 9. Plant mechanics and primate
dental adaptations: an overview Peter W. Lucas; 10. Convergent evolution in
brain 'shape' and locomotion in primates Willem de Winter; Part III. In
Vivo Organismal Verification of Functional Models: 11. Jaw adductor force
and symphyseal fusion William L. Hylander, Christopher J. Vinyard, Matthew
J. Ravosa, Callum F. Ross, Christine E. Wall and Kirk R. Johnson; 12. Hind
limb drive, hind limb steering? Functional differences between fore and
hind limbs in chimpanzee quadrupedalism Yu Li, Robin Huw Crompton, Weijie
Wang, Russell Savage and Michael M. Günther; Part IV. Theoretical Models in
Evolutionary Morphology: 13. Becoming bipedal: how do theories of
bipedalization stand up to anatomical scrutiny? Nina G. Jablonski and
George Chaplin; 14. Modeling human walking as an inverted pendulum of
varying length Jack T. Stern Jr, Brigitte Demes and D. Casey Kerrigan; 15.
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; Part V. Primate Diversity
and Evolution: 16. The evolution of primate ecology: patterns of geography
and phylogeny John G. Fleagle and Kaye E. Reed; 17. Charles Oxnard and the
aye-aye: morphometrics, cladistics, and two very special primates Colin P.
Groves; 18. From 'mathematical dissection of anatomies' to morphometrics: a
twenty-first-century appreciation of Charles Oxnard Fred L. Bookstein and
F. James Rohlf; 19. Design, level, interface, and complexity: morphometric
interpretation revisited Charles E. Oxnard; 20. Postscript and
acknowledgements Charles E. Oxnard; Index.