Shaping Primate Evolution: Form, Function, and Behavior (Cambridge Studies in Biological and Evolutionary Anthropology)

Cambridge University Press, 5/20/2004
EAN 9780521811071, ISBN10: 0521811074

Hardcover, 444 pages, 22.8 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm
Language: English

Shaping Primate Evolution is an edited collection of papers about how biological form is described in primate biology, and the consequences of form for function and behavior. The contributors are highly regarded internationally recognized scholars in the field of quantitative primate evolutionary morphology. Each chapter elaborates upon the analysis of the form-function-behavior triad in a unique and compelling way. This book is distinctive not only in the diversity of the topics discussed, but also in the range of levels of biological organization that are addressed from cellular morphometrics to the evolution of primate ecology. The book is dedicated to Charles E. Oxnard, whose influential pioneering work on innovative metric and analytic techniques has gone hand-in-hand with meticulous comparative functional analyses of primate anatomy. Through the marriage of theory with analytical applications, this volume will be an important reference work for all those interested in primate functional morphology.

List of contributors
Preface
shaping primate evolution Fred Anapol, Rebecca Z. German and Nina G. Jablonski
1. Charles Oxnard
an appreciation Matt Cartmill
Part I. Craniofacial Form and Variation
2. The ontogeny of sexual dimorphism
the implications of longitudinal vs. cross-sectional data for studying heterochrony in mammals Rebecca Z. German
3. Advances in the analysis of form and pattern
facial growth in African colobines Paul O'Higgins and Ruilang L. Pan
4. Cranial variation among the Asian colobines Ruilang L. Pan and Colin P. Groves
5. Craniometric variation in early Homo compared to modern gorillas
a population-thinking approach Joseph M. A. Miller, Gene H. Albrecht and Bruce Gelvin
Part II. Organ Structure, Function, and Behavior
6. Fiber architecture, muscle function, and behavior
gluteal and hamstring muscles of semiterrestrial and arboreal guenons Fred Anapol, Nazima Shahnoor and J. Patrick Gray
7. Comparative fiber-type composition and size in the antigravity muscles of primate limbs Françoise K. Jouffroy and Monique F. Médina
8. On the nature of morphology
selected canonical variates analyses of the hominoid hindtarsus and their interpretation Robert S. Kidd
9. Plant mechanics and primate dental adaptations
an overview Peter W. Lucas
10. Convergent evolution in brain 'shape' and locomotion in primates Willem de Winter
Part III. In Vivo Organismal Verification of Functional Models
11. Jaw adductor force and symphyseal fusion William L. Hylander, Christopher J. Vinyard, Matthew J. Ravosa, Callum F. Ross, Christine E. Wall and Kirk R. Johnson
12. Hind limb drive, hind limb steering? Functional differences between fore and hind limbs in chimpanzee quadrupedalism Yu Li, Robin Huw Crompton, Weijie Wang, Russell Savage and Michael M. Günther
Part IV. Theoretical Models in Evolutionary Morphology
13. Becoming bipedal
how do theories of bipedalization stand up to anatomical scrutiny? Nina G. Jablonski and George Chaplin
14. Modeling human walking as an inverted pendulum of varying length Jack T. Stern Jr, Brigitte Demes and D. Casey Kerrigan
15. Estimating the line of action of posteriorly inclined resultant jaw muscle forces in mammals using a model that minimizes functionally important distances in the skull Walter Stalker Greaves
Part V. Primate Diversity and Evolution
16. The evolution of primate ecology
patterns of geography and phylogeny John G. Fleagle and Kaye E. Reed
17. Charles Oxnard and the aye-aye
morphometrics, cladistics, and two very special primates Colin P. Groves
18. From 'mathematical dissection of anatomies' to morphometrics
a twenty-first-century appreciation of Charles Oxnard Fred L. Bookstein and F. James Rohlf
19. Design, level, interface, and complexity
morphometric interpretation revisited Charles E. Oxnard
20. Postscript and acknowledgements Charles E. Oxnard
Index.