Primate Origins: Adaptations and Evolution

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Otros Autores: Ravosa, Matthew J. (Editor ), Dagosto, Marian. (Editor )
Formato: eBook
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: New York, NY : Springer US : Imprint: Springer, 2007.
Edición:1st ed. 2007.
Colección:Developments in Primatology: Progress and Prospects,
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Acceso en línea:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-33507-0
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505 0 |a Supraordinal Relationships of Primates and Their Time of Origin -- A Molecular Classification for the Living Orders of Placental Mammals and the Phylogenetic Placement of Primates -- New Light on the Dates of Primate Origins and Divergence -- The Postcranial Morphology of Ptilocercus lowii (Scandentia, Tupaiidae) and its Implications for Primate Supraordinal Relationships -- Primate Origins: A Reappraisal of Historical Data Favoring Tupaiid Affinities -- Primate Taxonomy, Plesiadapiforms, and Approaches to Primate Origins -- Adaptations and Evolution of the Cranium -- Jaw-Muscle Function and the Origin of Primates -- Were Basal Primates Nocturnal? Evidence From Eye and Orbit Shape -- Oculomotor Stability and the Functions of the Postorbital Bar and Septum -- Primate Origins and the Function of the Circumorbital Region: What's Load Got to Do with It? -- Adaptations and Evolution of the Postcranium -- Origins of Grasping and Locomotor Adaptations in Primates: Comparative and Experimental Approaches Using an Opossum Model -- Evolvability, Limb Morphology, and Primate Origins -- Primate Gaits and Primate Origins -- Morphological Correlates of Forelimb Protraction in Quadrupedal Primates -- Ancestral Locomotor Modes, Placental Mammals, and the Origin of Euprimates: Lessons From History -- The Postcranial Morphotype of Primates -- New Skeletons of Paleocene-Eocene Plesiadapiformes: A Diversity of Arboreal Positional Behaviors in Early Primates -- Adaptations and Evolution of the Brain, Behavior, Physiology, and Ecology -- Start Small and Live Slow: Encephalization, Body Size, and Life History Strategies in Primate Origins and Evolution -- Evolutionary Specializations of Primate Brain Systems -- New Views on the Origin of Primate Social Organization -- Primate Bioenergetics: An Evolutionary Perspective -- Episodic Molecular Evolution of Some Protein Hormones in Primates and Its Implications for Primate Adaptation -- Parallelisms Among Primates and Possums -- Perspectives on Primate Color Vision. 
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