Primate Origins

Author : Matthew J. Ravosa,Marian Dagosto
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 846 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2007-01-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780387335070

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Primate Origins: Adaptations and Evolution by Matthew J. Ravosa,Marian Dagosto Pdf

This book provides a novel focus on adaptive explanations for cranial and postcranial features and functional complexes, socioecological systems, life history patterns, etc. in early primates. It further offers a detailed rendering of the phylogenetic affinities of such basal taxa to later primate clades as well as to other early/recent mammalian orders. In addition to the strictly paleontological or systemic questions regarding Primate Origins, the editors concentrate on the adaptive significance of primate characteristics. Thus, the book provides the broadest possible perspective on early primate phylogeny and the adaptive uniqueness of the Order Primates.

Author : Tetsuro Matsuzawa
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2008-06-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9784431094227

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Primate Origins of Human Cognition and Behavior by Tetsuro Matsuzawa Pdf

Biologists and anthropologists in Japan have played a crucial role in the development of primatology as a scientific discipline. Publication of Primate Origins of Human Cognition and Behavior under the editorship of Tetsuro Matsuzawa reaffirms the pervasive and creative role played by the intellectual descendants of Kinji Imanishi and Junichiro Itani in the fields of behavioral ecology, psychology, and cognitive science. Matsuzawa and his colleagues-humans and other primate partners- explore a broad range of issues including the phylogeny of perception and cognition; the origin of human speech; learning and memory; recognition of self, others, and species; society and social interaction; and culture. With data from field and laboratory studies of more than 90 primate species and of more than 50 years of long-term research, the intellectual breadth represented in this volume makes it a major contribution to comparative cognitive science and to current views on the origin of the mind and behavior of humans.

Author : Carel P. Van Schaik
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780470147634

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The Primate Origins of Human Nature by Carel P. Van Schaik Pdf

The Primate Origins of Human Nature (Volume 3 in The Foundations of Human Biology series) blends several elements from evolutionary biology as applied to primate behavioral ecology and primate psychology, classical physical anthropology and evolutionary psychology of humans. However, unlike similar books, it strives to define the human species relative to our living and extinct relatives, and thus highlights uniquely derived human features. The book features a truly multi-disciplinary, multi-theory, and comparative species approach to subjects not usually presented in textbooks focused on humans, such as the evolution of culture, life history, parenting, and social organization.

Author : R. Martin
Publisher : Springer
Page : 820 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2011-12-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 9401068534

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Primate Origins and Evolution by R. Martin Pdf

Author : Matt Cartmill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Primates
ISBN : UOM:39076006440668

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Primate Origins by Matt Cartmill Pdf

Author : Russell L. Ciochon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1091 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-08
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781351496681

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Primate Evolution and Human Origins by Russell L. Ciochon Pdf

Primate Evolution and Human Origins compiles, for the first time, the major ideas and publications that have shaped our current view of the evolutionary biology of the primates and the origin of the human line. Designed for freshmen-to-graduate students in anthropology, paleontology, and biology, the book is a unique collection of classic papers, culled from the past 20 years of research. It is also an important reference for academicians and researchers, as it covers the entire scope of primate and human evolution (with an emphasis on the fossil record). A comprehensive bibliography cites over 2000 significant articles not found in the main text.

Author : Robert D. Martin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 804 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Phylogeny
ISBN : 069108565X

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Primate Origins and Evolution by Robert D. Martin Pdf

This unique book carries out a comprehensive reconstruction of the evolutionary history of living and fossil primates. The text takes a comparative approach and covers the broadest possible spectrum of evidence. Although emphasis is placed on reviews of the anatomical characteristics of such species seen in a functional context, attention is also given both to evidence from the chromosomal level and to comparative molecular evidence. The tree-shrews, once thought to provide an approximate model for the ancestral primates, are repeatedly shown to differ from them significantly in key features. The primary objective throughout the book is the identification of such key characteristics in the earliest primates and investigation of the fate of these features during the subsequent evolution of the group. The major events of human evolution are examined in a broad evolutionary context, thus avoiding the ad hoc arguments that commonly result from narrow comparisons. This book will be of special interest to advanced students of anthropology and zoology, in particular to primatologists and evolutionary biologists and those concerned with mammals generally. Since technical terminology has been explained throughout, the book will also be accessible to a wide audience of people interested in primate evolution.

Author : Frans B. M. de Waal
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2009-07-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780674033023

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Tree of Origin by Frans B. M. de Waal Pdf

How did we become the linguistic, cultured, and hugely successful apes that we are? Our closest relatives--the other mentally complex and socially skilled primates--offer tantalizing clues. In Tree of Origin nine of the world's top primate experts read these clues and compose the most extensive picture to date of what the behavior of monkeys and apes can tell us about our own evolution as a species. It has been nearly fifteen years since a single volume addressed the issue of human evolution from a primate perspective, and in that time we have witnessed explosive growth in research on the subject. Tree of Origin gives us the latest news about bonobos, the make love not war apes who behave so dramatically unlike chimpanzees. We learn about the tool traditions and social customs that set each ape community apart. We see how DNA analysis is revolutionizing our understanding of paternity, intergroup migration, and reproductive success. And we confront intriguing discoveries about primate hunting behavior, politics, cognition, diet, and the evolution of language and intelligence that challenge claims of human uniqueness in new and subtle ways. Tree of Origin provides the clearest glimpse yet of the apelike ancestor who left the forest and began the long journey toward modern humanity.

Author : Matt Cartmill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 45 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0598173919

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Primate Origins by Matt Cartmill Pdf

Author : Glenn E. King
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317526667

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Primate Behavior and Human Origins by Glenn E. King Pdf

This comprehensive introduction demonstrates the theoretical perspectives and concepts that are applied to primate behavior, and explores the relevance of non-human primates to understanding human behavior. Using a streamlined and student-friendly taxonomic framework, King provides a thorough overview of the primate order. The chapters cover common features and diversity, and touch on ecology, sociality, life history, and cognition. Text boxes are included throughout the discussion featuring additional topics and more sophisticated taxonomy. The book contains a wealth of illustrations, and further resources to support teaching and learning are available via a companion website. Written in an engaging and approachable style, this is an invaluable resource for students of primate behavior as well as human evolution.

Author : Callum F. Ross,Richard F. Kay
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 749 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781441988737

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Anthropoid Origins by Callum F. Ross,Richard F. Kay Pdf

This second edition will be an edited volume of interest to those who do research and teach about the evolution of primates. It aims to convey to primatologists, anthropologists, palaeontologists, and neuroscientists the most recent studies of primate phylogeny, the anthropoid fossil record, the evolution of the primate visual system, and the origin of the anthropoid social systems. This title includes a CD-ROM and color figures.

Author : Sue Taylor Parker,Michael L. McKinney
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press+ORM
Page : 613 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-15
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781421410418

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Origins of Intelligence by Sue Taylor Parker,Michael L. McKinney Pdf

A look at the origins of cognitive abilities in primate species. Since Darwin’s time, comparative psychologists have searched for a good way to compare cognition in humans and nonhuman primates. In Origins of Intelligence, Sue Parker and Michael McKinney offer such a framework and make a strong case for using human development theory (both Piagetian and neo-Piagetian) to study the evolution of intelligence across primate species. Their approach is comprehensive, covering a broad range of social, symbolic, physical, and logical domains, which fall under the all-encompassing and much-debated term intelligence. A widely held theory among developmental psychologists and social and biological anthropologists is that cognitive evolution in humans has occurred through juvenilization—the gradual accentuation and lengthening of childhood in the evolutionary process. In this work, however, Parker and McKinney argue instead that new stages were added at the end of cognitive development in our hominid ancestors, coining the term adultification by terminal extension to explain this process. Drawing evidence from scores of studies on monkeys, great apes, and human children, this book provides unique insights into ontogenetic constraints that have interacted with selective forces to shape the evolution of cognitive development in our lineage. “The authors’ elegant theory and comprehensive empirical synthesis of how the development of human intelligence and brain evolved opens up cascading heuristic avenues for creatively answering one of the great questions in the human history of ideas.” —Jonas Langer, Human Development “A handy source of information on comparative cognitive abilities related to life history and brain variables.” —James Anderson, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute

Author : Russell L. Ciochon,John G. Fleagle
Publisher : Benjamin-Cummings Publishing Company
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1985-01-01
Category : Human evolution
ISBN : 080532240X

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Primate Evolution and Human Origins by Russell L. Ciochon,John G. Fleagle Pdf

Author : John G Fleagle,Christopher C. Gilbert
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2007-12-03
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780387738963

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Elwyn Simons: A Search for Origins by John G Fleagle,Christopher C. Gilbert Pdf

For nearly a half century, Dr. 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 place it in a broader paleontological and historical perspective. The book contains the results of new research as well as reviews of many of the critical issues in primate and human evolution during the last half of the twentieth century.

Author : Christopher Beard
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2004-12-20
Category : Science
ISBN : 0520940253

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The Hunt for the Dawn Monkey by Christopher Beard Pdf

Taking us back roughly 45 million years into the Eocene, "the dawn of recent life," Chris Beard, a world-renowned expert on the primate fossil record, offers a tantalizing new perspective on our deepest evolutionary roots. In a fast-paced narrative full of vivid stories from the field, he reconstructs our extended family tree, showing that the first anthropoids—the diverse and successful group that includes monkeys, apes, and humans—evolved millions of years earlier than was previously suspected and emerged in Asia rather than Africa. In The Hunt for the Dawn Monkey, Beard chronicles the saga of two centuries of scientific exploration in search of anthropoid origins, from the early work of Georges Cuvier, the father of paleontology, to the latest discoveries in Asia, Africa, and North America's Rocky Mountains. Against this historical backdrop, he weaves the story of how his own expeditions have unearthed crucial fossils—including the controversial primate Eosimias—that support his compelling new vision of anthropoid evolution. The only book written for a wide audience that explores this remote phase of our own evolutionary history, The Hunt for the Dawn Monkey adds a fascinating new chapter to our understanding of humanity's relationship to the rest of life on earth.