Ebook: New Interpretations of Ape and Human Ancestry

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Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xxiv
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Overview of Ape and Human Ancestry....Pages 3-19
Geochronology and Zoogeographic Relationships of Miocene Hominoidea....Pages 21-64
Front Matter....Pages 65-65
The Bearing of Molecular Data on the Cladogenesis and Times of Divergence of Hominoid Lineages....Pages 67-86
A Model of Chromosome Evolution and Its Bearing on Cladogenesis in the Hominoidea....Pages 87-114
Apes, Humans, and Molecular Clocks....Pages 115-150
Cladistics and the Classification of the Great Apes....Pages 151-177
Front Matter....Pages 179-179
New Interpretations of the Phyletic Position of Oligocene Hominoids....Pages 181-210
Maxillofacial Morphology of Miocene Hominoids from Africa and Indo-Pakistan....Pages 211-238
The Enamel of Neogene Hominoids....Pages 239-248
Front Matter....Pages 249-298
Locomotor Adaptations of Oligocene and Miocene Hominoids and Their Phyletic Implications....Pages 299-299
The Wrist of Proconsul africanus and the Origin of Hominoid Postcranial Adaptations....Pages 301-324
Miocene Hominoid Discoveries from Rudabanya....Pages 325-351
Miocene Hominoid Postcranial Morphology....Pages 353-367
Front Matter....Pages 369-404
Sequence and Environments of the Lower and Middle Miocene Hominoids of Western Kenya....Pages 405-417
Facts and Fallacies Concerning Miocene Ape Habitats....Pages 419-419
Front Matter....Pages 421-439
The Significance of Hitherto Undescribed Miocene Hominoids from the Siwaliks of Pakistan in the Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt....Pages 441-463
Miocene Hominoid Primate Dental Remains from the Siwaliks of Pakistan....Pages 465-514
Front Matter....Pages 515-515
Significance of Recent Hominoid Discoveries from the Siwalik Hills of India....Pages 517-526
Historical Notes on the Geology, Dating and Systematics of the Miocene Hominoids of India....Pages 527-537
Front Matter....Pages 515-515
A Reassessment of the Relationship between Later Miocene and Subsequent Hominoidea....Pages 539-557
Phyletic Relationships of Miocene Hominoids and Higher Primate Classification....Pages 559-574
Toward the Resolution of Discrepancies between Phenetic and Paleontological Data Bearing on the Question of Human Origins....Pages 575-575
Morphological Trends and Phylogenetic Relationships from Middle Miocene Hominoids to Late Pliocene Hominids....Pages 577-624
Australopithecus africanus....Pages 625-649
Front Matter....Pages 651-676
Hominoid Cladistics and the Ancestry of Modern Apes and Humans....Pages 677-694
Back Matter....Pages 695-703
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