Anthropoid Origins

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.