Shaping Primate Evolution: Form, Function, and Behavior

, by Edited by Fred Anapol , Rebecca Z. German , Nina G. Jablonski

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ISBN: 9780521143417 | 0521143411
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 6/10/2010

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This state-of-the-art book on how form is described in primate biology, and its consequences for function and behavior, includes contributions by internationally renowned researchers of quantitative primate evolutionary morphology. Each chapter elaborates upon the analysis of the form-function-behavior triad. The book is unique, therefore, not only in the diversity of the topics discussed, but in the range of levels of biological organization addressed--from cellular morphometrics to the evolution of primate ecology.

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List of contributors
Preface: shaping primate evolution
Charles Oxnard: an appreciation
Craniofacial Form and Variation
The ontogeny of sexual dimorphism: the implications of longitudinal vs. cross-sectional data for studying heterochrony in mammals
Advances in the analysis of form and pattern: facial growth in African colobines
Cranial variation among the Asian colobines
Craniometric variation in early Homo compared to modern gorillas: a population-thinking approach
Organ Structure, Function, and Behavior
Fiber architecture, muscle function, and behavior: gluteal and hamstring muscles of semiterrestrial and arboreal guenons
Comparative fiber-type composition and size in the antigravity muscles of primate limbs
On the nature of morphology: selected canonical variates analyses of the hominoid hindtarsus and their interpretation
Plant mechanics and primate dental adaptations: an overview
Convergent evolution in brain 'shape' and locomotion in primates
In Vivo Organismal Verification of Functional Models
Jaw adductor force and symphyseal fusion
Hind limb drive, hind limb steering? Functional differences between fore and hind limbs in chimpanzee quadrupedalism
Theoretical Models in Evolutionary Morphology
Becoming bipedal: how do theories of bipedalization stand up to anatomical scrutiny?
Modeling human walking as an inverted pendulum of varying length
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
Primate Diversity and Evolution
The evolution of primate ecology: patterns of geography and phylogeny
Charles Oxnard and the aye-aye: morphometrics, cladistics, and two very special primates
From 'mathematical dissection of anatomies' to morphometrics: a twenty-first-century appreciation of Charles Oxnard
Design, level, interface, and complexity: morphometric interpretation revisited
Postscript and acknowledgements
Index
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