Shaping Primate Evolution: Form, Function, and Behavior

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Author: Fred Charles Anapol

ISBN-10: 0521811074

ISBN-13: 9780521811071

Category: Mammals -> Evolution

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Explores how form is described in primate biology, and the effects of form on function and behavior.

Preface : shaping primate evolution1Charles Oxnard : an appreciation12The ontogeny of sexual dimorphism : the implications of longitudinal vs. cross-sectional data for studying heterochrony in mammals113Advances in the analysis of form and pattern : facial growth in African colobines244Cranial variation among the Asian colobines455Craniometric variation in early Homo compared to modern gorillas : a population-thinking approach666Fiber architecture, muscle function, and behavior : gluteal and hamstring muscles of semiterrestrial and arboreal guenons997Comparative fiber-type composition and size in the antigravity muscles of primate limbs1348On the nature of morphology : selected canonical variates analyses of the hominoid hindtarsus and their interpretation1629Plant mechanics and primate dental adaptations : an overview19310Convergent evolution in brain "shape" and locomotion in primates20611Jaw adductor force and symphyseal fusion22912Hind limb drive, hind limb steering? : functional differences between fore and hind limbs in chimpanzee quadrupedalism25813Becoming bipedal : how do theories of bipedalization stand up to anatomical scrutiny?28114Modeling human walking as an inverted pendulum of varying length29715Estimating the line of action of posteriorly inclined resultant jaw muscle forces in mammals using a model that minimizes functionally important distances in the skull33416The evolution of primate ecology : patterns of geography and phylogeny35317Charles Oxnard and the aye-aye : morphometrics, cladistics, and two very special primates36818From "mathematical dissection of anatomies" to morphometrics : a twenty-first-century appreciations of Charles Oxnard37819Design, level, interface, and complexity : morphometric interpretation revisited39120Postscript and acknowledgments415