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SHAPING PRIMATE EVOLUTION: FORM, FUNCTION AND BEHAVIOR

Edited by Fred Anapol, Rebecca Z. German and Nina G. Jablonski

Shaping Primate Evolution is an edited collection of state-of-the-art
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.

Fred Anapol is a professor in the Department of Anthropology and the
Director of the Center for Forensic Science at the University of
Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where he teaches skeletal biology, primate variation
and evolution, and forensic anthropology.  His research focuses on
evolutionary and developmental morphology and physiology of the
neuromusculoskeletal system of mammals, especially primates.

Rebecca Z. German is a professor in Biological Sciences at the University
of Cincinnati.  Her research interests involve functional and evolutionary
morphology, evolutionary developmental biology, and biostatistics.  She has
worked extensively on mammals and, in particular, on marsupials; work which
has taken her regularly to Australia, including a term as senior Fulbright
Fellow at the University of Western Australia.

Nina G. Jablonski is the Irvine Chair and Curator of Anthropology at the
California Academy of Sciences.  She is an evolutionary anthropologist with
broad interests in primate and human evolution.  She is the author of
numerous publications, including several edited volumes on the biology of
Old World monkeys and on the relationship between environmental change and
primate evolution.  Her recent research also embraces the controversial
topics of the evolution of human bipedalism and of human skin
coloration.  Alongside several journal appointments, she is also Series
Editor for Cambridge Studies in Biological and Evolutionary Anthropology.

Table of Contents

Contents

List of contributors, page xii
Preface: shaping primate evolution, xv
Fred Anapol, Rebecca Z. German, and
Nina G. Jablonski

1  Charles Oxnard: an appreciation  1
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  11
Rebecca Z. German

3  Advances in the analysis of form and pattern: facial growth in
African colobines  24
Paul O' Higgins and Ruliang I. Pan

4  Cranial variation among the Asian colobines  45
Ruliang I. Pan and Colin P. Groves

5 Craniometric variation in early Homo compared to modern
gorillas: a population-thinking approach  66
Joseph M. A. Miller, Gene H. Albrecht, and
Bruce R. Gelvin

Part  II Organ structure, function, and behavior

6  Fiber architecture, muscle function, and behavior: gluteal and
hamstring muscles of semiterrestrial and arboreal guenons  99
Fred Anapol, Nazima Shahnoor, and
J. Patrick Gray

7  Comparative fiber-type composition and size in the antigravity
muscles of primate limbs  134
Francoise K. Jouffroy and Monique F. Medina

8  On the nature of morphology: selected canonical variates
analyses of the hominoid hindtarsus and their interpretation  162
Robert S. Kidd

9  Plant mechanics and primate dental adaptations: an overview  193
Peter W. Lucas

10  Convergent evolution in brain "shape" and locomotion in
primates  206
Willem De Winter

Part III  In vivo organismal verification of functional models

11  Jaw adductor force and symphyseal fusion  229
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  258
Yu Li, Robin Huw Crompton, Weijie Wang,
Russell Savage, and Michael M. Gunther

Part IV  Theoretical models in evolutionary morphology

13  Becoming bipedal: how do theories of bipedalization stand up to
anatomical scrutiny?  281
Nina G. Jablonski and George Chaplin

14  Modeling human walking as an inverted pendulum of varying
length  297
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  334
Walter Stalker Greaves

Part V  Primate diversity and evolution

16  The evolution of primate ecology: patterns of geography and
phylogeny  353
John G. Fleagle and Kaye E. Reed

17  Charles Oxnard and the aye-aye: morphometrics, cladistics, and
two very special primates  368
Colin P. Groves

18  From "mathematical dissection of anatomies" to morphometrics:
a twenty-orst-century appreciation of Charles Oxnard  378
Fred L. Bookstein and F. James Rohlf

19  Design, level, interface, and complexity: morphometric
interpretation revisited  391
Charles E. Oxnard

20  Postscript and acknowledgments  415
Charles E. Oxnard

Index 420

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Posted Date: 7/26/04