Primate Origins: Adaptations and Evolution (eBook)

CONTENTS 6
CONTRIBUTORS 18
PREFACE 22
INTRODUCTIONS FOR SECTIONS I–IV 26
A Molecular Classification for the Living Orders of Placental Mammals and the Phylogenetic Placement of Primates 32
New Light on the Dates of Primate Origins and Divergence 60
The Postcranial Morphology of Ptilocercus lowii ( Scandentia, Tupaiidae) and Its Implications for Primate Supraordinal Relationships 81
Primate Origins: A Reappraisal of Historical Data Favoring Tupaiid Affinities 113
Primate Taxonomy, Plesiadapiforms, and Approaches to Primate Origins 173
Jaw-Muscle Function and the Origin of Primates 209
Were Basal Primates Nocturnal? Evidence from Eye and Orbit Shape 262
Oculomotor Stability and the Functions of the Postorbital Bar and Septum 286
Primate Origins and the Function of the Circumorbital Region: What Is Load Got to Do with It? 313
Origins of Grasping and Locomotor Adaptations in Primates: Comparative and Experimental Approaches Using an Opossum Model 357
Evolvability, Limb Morphology, and Primate Origins 409
Primate Gaits and Primate Origins 430
Morphological Correlates of Forelimb Protraction in Quadrupedal Primates 463
Ancestral Locomotor Modes, Placental Mammals, and the Origin of Euprimates: Lessons from History 483
The Postcranial Morphotype of Primates 514
New Skeletons of Paleocene- Eocene Plesiadapiformes: A Diversity of Arboreal Positional Behaviors in Early Primates 560
Start Small and Live Slow: Encephalization, Body Size, and Life History Strategies in Primate Origins and Evolution 607
Evolutionary Specializations of Primate Brain Systems 648
New Views on the Origin of Primate Social Organization 699
Primate Bioenergetics: An Evolutionary Perspective 724
Episodic Molecular Evolution of Some Protein Hormones in Primates and Its Implications for Primate Adaptation 759
Parallelisms Among Primates and Possums 794
Perspectives on Primate Color Vision 823
TAXON INDEX 838