The Evolution of the Primate Hand

Tracy L. Kivell Animal Postcranial Evolution (APE) Lab, Skeletal Biology Research Centre, School of Anthropology and Conservation, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK Department of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany Pierre Lemelin Division of Anatomy, Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada Brian G. RichmondDivision of Anthropology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY, USA Daniel SchmittAnimal Locomotion Lab, Department of Evolutionary Anthropology, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA

FOREWARD.- Introduction.- On the primitiveness, prehensility, and opposability of the primate hand: the contributions of Frederic Wood Jones and John Russell Napier.- The Primate Wrist.- Morphological Diversity in the Digital Rays of Primate Hands.- The Role of Genes and Development in the Evolution of the Primate Hand.- Organization and Evolution of Neural Control of the Hand in Primates: Motor Systems, Sensory Feedback, and Laterality.- Anatomy, Function, and Evolution of the Primate Hand Musculature.- Comparative and Functional Morphology of the Primate Hand Integument.- Functional Morphology of the Primate Hand: Recent Approaches using Biomedical Imaging, Computer Modeling, and Engineering Methods.- Experimental Research on Hand Use and Function in Primates.- Biomechanics of the Human Hand: From Stone Tools to Computer Keyboards.- Functions of the Hand in Primates.- Patterns, Variability, and Flexibility of Hand Posture during Locomotion in Primates.- The Hands of Paleogene Primates.- The Hands of Subfossil Lemurs.- The Hands of Non-Hominoid Anthropoids.- The Hands of Miocene Hominoids.- Evolution of the Early Hominin Hand.- The Evolution of the Hand in Pleistocene Homo.