Ebook: Elwyn Simons: A Search for Origins

Elwyn Simons: A Search for Origins

John G. Fleagle and Christopher C. Gilbert, Editors

For nearly a half century, Dr. Elwyn Simons has dominated the study of primate evolution. This volume summarizes the current state of knowledge in many aspects of primate and human evolution that have been studied by Simons and his colleagues and places it in a broader paleontological and historical perspective.

A Search for Origins contains the results of new research and reviews of many of the critical issues in primate and human paleontology during the last half of the twentieth century as well as other aspects of African paleontology, geology, and primate conservation.

The chapters include a wide range of important new works that are valuable contributions to the field of physical anthropology and are certain to be widely cited and used in teaching. The authors of this text are an extremely distinguished group of international authorities on all aspects of primate evolution, human evolution, and primate behavior.

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Elwyn Simons: A Search for Origins

John G. Fleagle and Christopher C. Gilbert, Editors

For nearly a half century, Dr. Elwyn Simons has dominated the study of primate evolution. This volume summarizes the current state of knowledge in many aspects of primate and human evolution that have been studied by Simons and his colleagues and places it in a broader paleontological and historical perspective.

A Search for Origins contains the results of new research and reviews of many of the critical issues in primate and human paleontology during the last half of the twentieth century as well as other aspects of African paleontology,  geology, and primate conservation.

The chapters include a wide range of important new works that are valuable contributions to the field of physical anthropology and are certain to be widely cited and used in teaching. The authors of this text are an extremely distinguished group of international authorities on all aspects of primate evolution, human evolution, and primate behavior.

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Elwyn Simons: A Search for Origins

John G. Fleagle and Christopher C. Gilbert, Editors

For nearly a half century, Dr. Elwyn Simons has dominated the study of primate evolution. This volume summarizes the current state of knowledge in many aspects of primate and human evolution that have been studied by Simons and his colleagues and places it in a broader paleontological and historical perspective.

A Search for Origins contains the results of new research and reviews of many of the critical issues in primate and human paleontology during the last half of the twentieth century as well as other aspects of African paleontology,  geology, and primate conservation.

The chapters include a wide range of important new works that are valuable contributions to the field of physical anthropology and are certain to be widely cited and used in teaching. The authors of this text are an extremely distinguished group of international authorities on all aspects of primate evolution, human evolution, and primate behavior.

Content:
Front Matter....Pages I-XIV
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Elwyn LaVerne Simons....Pages 3-5
A Personal Reminiscence of Elwyn....Pages 7-11
Sir Wilfrid Le Gros Clark....Pages 13-18
Sir Wilfrid Le Gros Clark....Pages 19-33
Human Evolution and the Challenge of Creationism....Pages 35-40
Front Matter....Pages 41-45
Five Decades in the Fayum....Pages 47-49
Geology, Paleoenvironment, and Age of Birket Qarun Locality 2 (BQ-2), Fayum Depression, Egypt....Pages 51-70
Eocene and Oligocene Mammals of the Fayum, Egypt....Pages 71-86
Early Evolution of Whales....Pages 87-105
The Basicranial Anatomy of African Eocene/Oligocene Anthropoids. Are There Any Clues for Platyrrhine Origins?....Pages 107-124
Paleontological Exploration in Africa....Pages 125-158
Return to Dor al-Talha....Pages 159-180
Revisiting Haritalyangar, the Late Miocene Ape Locality of India....Pages 181-196
Revisiting Primate Postcrania from the Pondaung Formation of Myanmar....Pages 197-210
A Haplorhine First Metatarsal from the Middle Eocene of China....Pages 211-228
New Data on Loveina (Primates: Omomyidae) from the early Eocene Wasatch Formation and Implications for Washakiin Relationships....Pages 229-242
The Behavioral Ecology of our Earliest Hominid Ancestors....Pages 243-257
Front Matter....Pages 259-279
Decades of Lemur Research and Conservation....Pages 281-282
Low Fetal Energy Deposition Rates in Lemurs....Pages 283-310
Front Matter....Pages 311-318
Old Lemurs....Pages 281-282
Peculiar Tooth Homologies of the Greater Bamboo Lemur (Prolemur = Hapalemur simus)....Pages 319-334
How Big were the “Giant” Extinct Lemurs of Madagascar?....Pages 335-342
Ghosts and Orphans....Pages 343-360
Vicariance vs. Dispersal in the Origin of the Malagasy Mammal Fauna....Pages 361-395
On the Brink of Extinction....Pages 397-408
Back Matter....Pages 409-427
....Pages 429-460