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The Life of a Scientist | p. 1 |
Introduction to the Festschrift | p. 3 |
Elwyn LaVerne Simons: A Very Personal View | p. 7 |
A Personal Reminiscence of Elwyn | p. 13 |
Sir Wilfrid Le Gros Clark: The Making of a Paleoanthropologist | p. 19 |
Sir Wilfrid Le Gros Clark: Personal Recollections of Le Gros | p. 35 |
Human Evolution and the Challenge of Creationism: A speech given at Duke University, September 16, 2005 | p. 41 |
The Fayum and Other Fossil Adventures | p. 47 |
Five Decades in the Fayum | p. 51 |
Geology, Paleoenvironment, and Age of Birket Qarun Locality 2 (BQ-2), Fayum Depression, Egypt | p. 71 |
Eocene and Oligocene Mammals of the Fayum, Egypt | p. 87 |
Early Evolution of Whales: A Century of Research in Egypt | p. 107 |
The Basicranial Anatomy of African Eocene/Oligocene Anthropoids. Are There Any Clues for Platyrrhine Origins? | p. 125 |
Paleontological Exploration in Africa: A View from the Rukwa Rift Basin of Tanzania | p. 159 |
Return to Dor al-Talha: Paleontological Reconnaissance of the Early Tertiary of Libya | p. 181 |
Revisiting Haritalyangar, the Late Miocene Ape Locality of India | p. 197 |
Revisiting Primate Postcrania from the Pondaung Formation of Myanmar: The Purported Anthropoid Astragalus | p. 211 |
A Haplorhine First Metatarsal from the Middle Eocene of China | p. 229 |
New Data on Loveina (Primates: Omomyidae) from the early Eocene Wasatch Formation and Implications for Washakiin Relationships | p. 243 |
The Behavioral Ecology of our Earliest Hominid Ancestors | p. 259 |
Primates from Madagascar and Elsewhere | p. 281 |
Decades of Lemur Research and Conservation: The Elwyn Simons Influence | p. 283 |
Low Fetal Energy Deposition Rates in Lemurs: Another Energy Conservation Strategy | p. 311 |
Old Lemurs: Preliminary Data on Behavior and Reproduction from the Duke University Primate Center | p. 319 |
Peculiar Tooth Homologies of the Greater Bamboo Lemur (Prolemur = Hapalemur simus): When is a Paracone Not a Paracone? | p. 335 |
How Big were the "Giant" Extinct Lemurs of Madagascar? | p. 343 |
Ghosts and Orphans: Madagascar's Vanishing Ecosystems | p. 361 |
Vicariance vs. Dispersal in the Origin of the Malagasy Mammal Fauna | p. 397 |
On the Brink of Extinction: Research for the Conservation of the Tonkin Snub-nosed Monkey (Rhinopithecus avunculus) | p. 409 |
Publications by Elwyn Simons Through 2006 | p. 429 |
Subject Index | p. 445 |
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