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9780521113380

Major Topics in Primate and Human Evolution

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  • ISBN13:

    9780521113380

  • ISBN10:

    0521113385

  • Edition: Revised
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2009-06-18
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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The fragmentary fossil record of primates and hominids has generated fundamental, and often well publicised, differences of opinion about their evolution. The objective of this book, based upon a joint symposium of the Anatomical Society and Primate Society of Great Britain, is to present a review of the major problem areas, emphasising both neontology and palaeontology and aimed specifically to meet the requirements of students. For some issues, leading proponents of 'rival' schools present their viewpoint; for others, distinguished contributors have reviewed a particularly important or controversial problem, presenting non-partisan objective analysis. By including papers that adopt contrasting opinions towards the reconstruction of evolutionary relationships and by incorporating the interpretations of the fossil evidence, this volume provides a valuable synthesis of the thinking about primate and human palaeontology.

Table of Contents

List of contributors
Preface
Primates: a definition
Plesiadapis and the delineation of the order Primates
The relationships of the Tarssiiformes: a review of the case for the Haplorhini
Platyrrhines, catarrhines and the anthropoid transition
Problems of dental evolution in the higher primates
Molecular evidence for catarrhine evolution
The fossil record of early catarrhine evolution
Molecular sequences and hominoid phylogeny
Hominoid evolution: molecular and palaeontological patterns
Relationships among extant and extinct great apes and humans
Bipedalism: pressures, origins and modes
Dental trends in the australopithecones: the allometry of mandibular molar dimensions
Australopithecus: grade or clade?
Homo and Paranthropus: similarities in the cranial base and developing dentition
The credibility of Homo habilis
The origin and fate of Homo erectus A. Bilsborough
The origin of Homo sapiens: the genetic evidence
The origin of Homo sapiens: the fossil evidence
Author index
Subject index
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