The Primate Fossil Record

by Edited by Walter Carl Hartwig

• ISBN13: 9780521081412
• ISBN10: 0521081416
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-09-18
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

A comprehensive treatment of primate paleontology. Profusely illustrated and up to date, it captures the complete history of the discovery and interpretation of primate fossils. The chapters range from primate origins to the advent of anatomically modern humans. Each emphasizes three key components of the record of primate evolution: history of discovery, taxonomy of the fossils, and evolution of the adaptive radiations they represent. The Primate Fossil Record summarizes objectively the many intellectual debates surrounding the fossil record and provides a foundation of reference information on the last two decades of astounding discoveries and worldwide field research for physical anthropologists, paleontologists and evolutionary biologists.

Table of Contents

Preface

Acknowledgements

Introduction to the primate fossil record Walter Carl Hartwig

The origin of primates David Tab Rasmussen

The Earliest Primates and the Fossil Record of Prosimians

The earliest fossil primates and the evolution of prosimians

Adapiformes: phylogeny and adaptation

Tarsiiformes: evolutionary history and adaptation

Fossil lorisoids

Quaternary fossil lemurs

The Origin and Diversification of Anthropoid Primates

The origin and diversification of anthropoid primates - Introduction Marian Dagosto

Basal anthropoids

Platyrrhine paleontology and systematics: the paradigm shifts

Early platyrrhines of southern South America

Miocene platyrrhines of the northern neotropics

Extinct Quaternary platyrrhines of the

The Fossil Record of the Early Catarrhines and Old World Monkeys

Early catarrhines of the African Eocene and Oligocene

The Pliopithecoidea

The Victoriapithecidae, Cercopithecoidea

Fossil Old World monkeys: the Late Neogene radiation

The Fossil Record of Hominoid Primates

Perspectives on the Miocene Hominoidea

Late Oligocene to Middle Miocene catarrhines from

European hominoids David Begun

The hominoid radiation in Asia

Middle and Late Miocene African hominoids

The Fossil Record of Human Ancestry

Introduction to the fossil record of human ancestry

Earliest hominids

Early genus

Migrations, radiations and continuity: patterns in the evolution of Middle and Late Pleistocene humans

References cited

Index

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