Primate Locomotion
Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers (Verlag)
978-0-306-46022-7 (ISBN)
I: Naturalistic Behavior.- 1. Methodological Issues in Studying Positional Behavior: Meeting Ripley’s Challenge.- 2. Fine-Grained Differences within Positional Categories: A Case Study of Pithecia and Chiropotes.- 3. Patterns of Suspensory Feeding in Alouatta palliata, Ateles geoffroyi, and Cebus capucinus.- 4. Within- and Between-Site Variability in Moustached Tamarin (Saguinus mystax) Positional Behavior during Food Procurement.- 5. Locomotion, Support Use, Maintenance Activities, and Habitat Structure: The Case of the Tai Forest Cercopithecids.- 6. The Gorilla Paradox: The Effects of Body Size and Habitat on the Positional Behavior of Lowland and Mountain Gorillas.- II: Morphology and Behavior.- 7. Reconstruction of Hip Joint Function in Extant and Fossil Primates.- 8. Grasping Performance in Saguinus midas and the Evolution of Hand Prehensility in Primates.- 9. Tail-Assisted Hind Limb Suspension as a Transitional Behavior in the Evolution of the Platyrrhine Prehensile Tail.- 10. Unique Aspects of Quadrupedal Locomotion in Nonhuman Primates.- 11. Forelimb Mechanics during Arboreal and Terrestrial Quadrupedalism in Old World Monkeys.- III: Data Acquisition and Analytic Techniques.- 12. Advances in Three-Dimensional Data Acquisition and Analysis.- 13. Laser Scanning and Paleoanthropology: An Example from Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania.- 14. Use of Strain Gauges in the Study of Primate Locomotor Biomechanics.- 15. The Information Content of Morphometric Data in Primates: Function, Development, and Evolution.- 16. Heterochronic Approaches to the Study of Locomotion.- 17. Body Size and Scaling of Long Bone Geometry, Bone Strength, and Positional Behavior in Cercopithecoid Primates.- IV: Fossils and Reconstructing the Origins and Evolution of Taxa.- 18. Afropithecus, Proconsul,and the Primitive Hominoid Skeleton.- 19. Fossil Evidence for the Origins of Terrestriality among Old World Higher Primates.- 20. Ecological Morphology of Australopithecus afarensis: Traveling Terrestrially, Eating Arboreally.- 21. Time and Energy: The Ecological Context for the Evolution of Bipedalism.- 22. Heel, Squat, Stand, Stride: Function and Evolution of Hominoid Feet.- 23. Evolution of the Hominid Hip.
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 31.10.1998 |
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Zusatzinfo | IX, 482 p. |
Verlagsort | New York |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 178 x 254 mm |
Themenwelt | Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Evolution |
Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Zoologie | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
ISBN-10 | 0-306-46022-X / 030646022X |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-306-46022-7 / 9780306460227 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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