Anthropoid Origins: New Visions

Front Matter....Pages i-xxix
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Evolving Perspectives on Anthropoidea....Pages 3-41
Front Matter....Pages 43-43
Molecular Phylogeny and Dating of Early Primate Divergences....Pages 45-64
Molecular Cladistic Markers and the Infraordinal Phylogenetic Relationships of Primates....Pages 65-77
The Ancestral Genomes in Primate Phylogeny and Origins: A Molecular Cytogenetic Perspective....Pages 79-90
Anthropoid Origins: A Phylogenetic Analysis....Pages 91-135
Front Matter....Pages 137-137
Does Overlap Among the Adaptive Radiations of Omomyoids, Adapoids, and Early Anthropoids Cloud our Understanding of Anthropoid Origins?....Pages 139-155
Phylogenetic, Biogeographic, and Adaptive Implications of New Fossil Evidence Bearing on Crown Anthropoid Origins and Early Stem Catarrhine Evolution....Pages 157-181
The Cranium and Adaptations of Parapithecus grangeri , a Stem Anthropoid from the Fayum Oligocene of Egypt....Pages 183-204
The Primate-Bearing Pondaung Formation in the Upland Area, Northwest of Central Myanmar....Pages 205-217
A Review of the Large-Bodied Pondaung Primates of Myanmar....Pages 219-247
Eocene Large-Bodied Primates of Myanmar and Thailand: Morphological Considerations and Phylogenetic Affinities....Pages 249-282
The Pondaung Primates, Enigmatic “Possible Anthropoids” from the Latest Middle Eocene, Central Myanmar....Pages 283-321
The Morphology of Two Maxillae of Pondaung Primates ( Pondaungia cotteri and Amphipithecus mogaungensis ) (middle Eocene, Myanmar)....Pages 323-340
 Siamopithecus eocaenus , Anthropoid Primate from the Late Eocene of Krabi, Thailand....Pages 341-368
Anthropoid Origins: Postcranial Evidence from the Eocene of Asia....Pages 369-380
Front Matter....Pages 381-381
Evidence for Early Anthropoid Social Behavior....Pages 383-412
Function and Fusion of the Mandibular Symphysis in Mammals: A Comparative and Experimental Perspective....Pages 413-462
The Distribution and Size of Retinal Ganglion Cells in Microcebus murinus, Cheirogaleus medius , and Tarsius syrichta : Implications for the Evolution of Sensory Systems in Primates....Pages 463-475
The Tarsier Fovea: Functionless Vestige or Nocturnal Adaptation?....Pages 477-537
The Evolution of High Visual Acuity in the Anthropoidea....Pages 539-602
Front Matter....Pages 381-381
Endocranial Volume and Optic Foramen Size in Parapithecus grangeri ....Pages 603-614
Color as an Indicator of Food Quality to Anthropoid Primates: Ecological Evidence and an Evolutionary Scenario....Pages 615-644
Photopigment Variations and the Evolution of Anthropoid Vision....Pages 645-664
Mosaic Evolution of Activity Pattern, Diet, and Color Vision in Haplorhine Primates....Pages 665-698
Front Matter....Pages 699-699
Anthropoid Origins: Retrospective and Prospective....Pages 701-737
Back Matter....Pages 739-749