Anthropoid Origins, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2004 New Visions Developments in Primatology: Progress and Prospects Series

This second edition will be an edited volume of interest to those who do research and teach about the evolution of primates. It aims to convey to primatologists, anthropologists, palaeontologists, and neuroscientists the most recent studies of primate phylogeny, the anthropoid fossil record, the evolution of the primate visual system, and the origin of the anthropoid social systems. This title includes a CD-ROM and color figures.

1: Introduction.- 1. Evolving Perspectives of Anthropoidea.- 2: Anthropoid Evolutionary Relationships.- Molecular Phylogeny and Dating of Early Primate Divergences.- Molecular Cladistic Markers and the Infraordinal Phylogenetic Relationships of Primates.- The Ancestral Genomes in Primate Phylogeny and Origins: A Molecular Cytogenetic Perspective.- Anthropoid Origins: A Phylogenetic Analysis.- 3: Fossil Anthropoids and the Biogeography of Anthropoid Origins.- Does Overlap Among the Adaptive Radiations of Omomyoids, Adapoids, and Early Anthropoids Cloud our Understanding of Anthropoid Origins?.- 7. Phylogenetic, Biogeographic, and Adaptive Implications of New Fossil Evidence Bearing on Crown Anthropoid Origins and Early Stem Catarrhine Evolution.- 8. The Cranium and Adaptations of Parapithecus grangeri a Stem Anthropoid from the Fayum Oligocene of Egypt.- 9. The Primate-Bearing Pondaung Formation in the Upland Area, Northwest of Central Myanmar.- 10. A Review of the Large-Bodied Pondaung Primates of Myanmar.- 11. Eocene Large-Bodied Primates of Myanmar and Thailand: Morphological Considerations and Phylogenetic Affinities.- 12. The Pondaung Primates, Enigmatic “Possible Anthropoids” from the Latest Middle Eocene, Central Myanmar.- The Morphology of Two Maxillae of Pondaung Primates (Pondaungia cotteri and Amphipithecus mogaungensis) (middle Eocene, Myanmar).- Siamopithecus eocaenus, Anthropoid Primate from the Late Eocene of Krabi, Thailand.- 15. Anthropoid Origins: Postcranial Evidence from the Eocene of Asia.- 4: Evolution of Anthropoid Adaptations.- 16. Evidence for Early Anthropoid Social Behavior.- function and Fusion of the Mandibular Symphysis in Mammals: A Comparative and Experimental Perspective.- 18. The Distribution and Size of Retinal Ganglion Cells inMicrocebus murinus, Cheirogaleus medius, and Tavsius syrichta: Implications for the Evolution of Sensory Systems in Primates.- The Tarsier Fovea: Functionless Vestige or Nocturnal Adaptation?.- 20. The Evolution of High Visual Acuity in the Anthropoidea.- 21. Endocranial Volume and Optic Foramen Size in Pampithecus grangeri.- Color as an Indicator of Food Quality to Anthropoid Primates: Ecological Evidence and an Evolutionary Scenario.- 23. Photopigment Variations and the Evolution of Anthropoid Vision.- 24. Mosaic Evolution of Activity Pattern, Diet, and Color Vision in Haplorhine Primates.- 5: The Future of Anthropoid Origins.- Anthropoid origins: Retrospective and Prospective.