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...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Otros Autores: Fleagle, John G. (Editor ), Gilbert, Christopher C. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2008.
Edición:1st ed. 2008.
Colección:Developments in Primatology: Progress and Prospects,
Temas:
Zoology.
Evolution (Biology).
Evolutionary Biology.
Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The Life of a Scientist
  • to the Festschrift
  • Elwyn LaVerne Simons
  • A Personal Reminiscence of Elwyn
  • Sir Wilfrid Le Gros Clark
  • Sir Wilfrid Le Gros Clark
  • Human Evolution and the Challenge of Creationism
  • The Fayum and Other Fossil Adventures
  • Five Decades in the Fayum
  • Geology, Paleoenvironment, and Age of Birket Qarun Locality 2 (BQ-2), Fayum Depression, Egypt
  • Eocene and Oligocene Mammals of the Fayum, Egypt
  • Early Evolution of Whales
  • The Basicranial Anatomy of African Eocene/Oligocene Anthropoids. Are There Any Clues for Platyrrhine Origins?
  • Paleontological Exploration in Africa
  • Return to Dor al-Talha
  • Revisiting Haritalyangar, the Late Miocene Ape Locality of India
  • Revisiting Primate Postcrania from the Pondaung Formation of Myanmar
  • A Haplorhine First Metatarsal from the Middle Eocene of China
  • New Data on Loveina (Primates: Omomyidae) from the early Eocene Wasatch Formation and Implications for Washakiin Relationships
  • The Behavioral Ecology of our Earliest Hominid Ancestors
  • The Fayum and Other Fossil Adventures
  • Decades of Lemur Research and Conservation
  • Low Fetal Energy Deposition Rates in Lemurs
  • Old Lemurs
  • Peculiar Tooth Homologies of the Greater Bamboo Lemur (Prolemur = Hapalemur simus)
  • How Big were the "Giant" Extinct Lemurs of Madagascar?
  • Ghosts and Orphans
  • Vicariance vs. Dispersal in the Origin of the Malagasy Mammal Fauna
  • On the Brink of Extinction.

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