The Primate Fossil Record

by Edited by Walter Carl Hartwig

• ISBN13: 9780521663151
• ISBN10: 0521663156
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-05-13
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

The first comprehensive treatment of primate paleontology in more than 20 years. 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 summarises 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

List of contributors	ix
Preface	xi
Acknowledgements	xii
Abbreviations	xiii
Introduction to The Primate Fossil Record	1	(4)
Walter Carl Hartwig
The origin of primates	5	(6)
David Tab Rasmussen
The earliest primates and the fossil record of prosimians	11	(112)
The earliest fossil primates and the evolution of prosimians: Introduction	13	(8)
Herbert H. Covert
Adapiformes: Phylogeny and adaptation	21	(24)
Daniel L. Gebo
Tarsiiformes: Evolutionary history and adaptation	45	(38)
Gregg F. Gunnell
Kenneth D. Rose
Fossil lorisoids	83	(14)
Erica M. Phillips
Alan Walker
Quaternary fossil lemurs	97	(26)
Laurie R. Godfrey
William L. Jungers
The origin and diversification of anthropoid primates	123	(78)
The origin and diversification of anthropoid primates: Introduction	125	(8)
Marian Dagosto
Basal anthropoids	133	(18)
K. Christopher Beard
Platyrrhine paleontology and systematics: The paradigm shifts	151	(10)
Alfred L. Rosenberger
Early platyrrhines of southern South America	161	(14)
John G. Fleagle
Marcelo F. Tejedor
Miocene platyrrhines of the northern Neotropics	175	(14)
Walter Carl Hartwig
D. Jeffrey Meldrum
Extinct Quaternary platyrrhines of the Greater Antilles and Brazil	189	(12)
Ross D. E. Macphee
Ines Horovits
The fossil record of early catarrhines and Old World monkeys	201	(100)
Early Catarrhines of the African Eocene and Oligocene	203	(18)
David Tab Rasmussen
The Pliopithecoidea	221	(20)
David R. Begun
The Victoriapithecidae, Cercopithecoidea	241	(14)
Brenda R. Benefit
Monte L. McCrossin
Fossil Old World monkeys: The late Neogene radiation	255	(46)
Nina G. Jablonski
The fossil record of hominoid primates	301	(98)
Perspectives on the Miocene Hominoidea	303	(8)
David R. Pilbeam
Late Oligocene to middle Miocene catarrhines from Afro-Arabia	311	(28)
Terry Harrison
European homionoids	339	(30)
David R. Begun
The hominoid radiation in Asia	369	(16)
Jay Kelley
Middle and late Miocene African hominoids	385	(14)
Steven C. Ward
Dana L. Duren
The fossil record of human ancestry	399	(58)
Introduction to the fossil record of human ancestry	401	(6)
Henry M. McHenry
Earliest hominids	407	(12)
Tim D. White
Early Genus Homo	419	(18)
Holly Dunsworth
Alan Walker
Migrations, radiations and continuity: Patterns in the evolution of Middle and Late Pleistocene humans	437	(20)
Fred H. Smith
References	457	(62)
Historical figures index	519	(4)
Taxonomic index	523