Shaping Primate Evolution
Form, Function, and Behavior

Explores how form is described in primate biology, and the effects of form on function and behavior.

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

9780521811071, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 20 May 2004

444 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm, 0.76 kg

Review of the hardback: '... no scientist has palyed a more vital role to the development of this field than Professor Charles Oxnard. ... a timely contribution to a field that has recently undergone vast methodological upheavals ... will be of particular interest to scholars of functional anatomy, primate and human evolution, and systematics. ... each section is elegantly introduced ... this book is an apt credit to the life-long work of Chalres Oxnard; it has served the difficult task of commemorating the many research interests of one of the most notable contributors to biological anthropology.' Journal of Biological Science

Shaping Primate Evolution is an edited collection of 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.

List of contributors
Preface: shaping primate evolution Fred Anapol, Rebecca Z. German and Nina G. Jablonski
1. Charles Oxnard: an appreciation 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 Rebecca Z. German
3. Advances in the analysis of form and pattern: facial growth in African colobines Paul O'Higgins and Ruilang L. Pan
4. Cranial variation among the Asian colobines Ruilang L. Pan and Colin P. Groves
5. Craniometric variation in early Homo compared to modern gorillas: a population-thinking approach Joseph M. A. Miller, Gene H. Albrecht and Bruce Gelvin
Part II. Organ Structure, Function, and Behavior: 6. Fiber architecture, muscle function, and behavior: gluteal and hamstring muscles of semiterrestrial and arboreal guenons Fred Anapol, Nazima Shahnoor and J. Patrick Gray
7. Comparative fiber-type composition and size in the antigravity muscles of primate limbs Françoise K. Jouffroy and Monique F. Médina
8. On the nature of morphology: selected canonical variates analyses of the hominoid hindtarsus and their interpretation Robert S. Kidd
9. Plant mechanics and primate dental adaptations: an overview Peter W. Lucas
10. Convergent evolution in brain 'shape' and locomotion in primates Willem de Winter
Part III. In Vivo Organismal Verification of Functional Models: 11. Jaw adductor force and symphyseal fusion 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 Yu Li, Robin Huw Crompton, Weijie Wang, Russell Savage and Michael M. Günther
Part IV. Theoretical Models in Evolutionary Morphology: 13. Becoming bipedal: how do theories of bipedalization stand up to anatomical scrutiny? Nina G. Jablonski and George Chaplin
14. Modeling human walking as an inverted pendulum of varying length 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 Walter Stalker Greaves
Part V. Primate Diversity and Evolution: 16. The evolution of primate ecology: patterns of geography and phylogeny John G. Fleagle and Kaye E. Reed
17. Charles Oxnard and the aye-aye: morphometrics, cladistics, and two very special primates Colin P. Groves
18. From 'mathematical dissection of anatomies' to morphometrics: a twenty-first-century appreciation of Charles Oxnard Fred L. Bookstein and F. James Rohlf
19. Design, level, interface, and complexity: morphometric interpretation revisited Charles E. Oxnard
20. Postscript and acknowledgements Charles E. Oxnard
Index.

Subject Areas: Zoology & animal sciences [PSV]