Shaping primate evolution / edited by Fred Anapol, Rebecca Z. German & Nina G. Jablonski.

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Charles Oxnard : an appreciation / Matt Cartmill -- The ontogeny of sexual dimorphism : the implications of longitudinal vs. cross-sectional data for studying heterochrony in mammals / Rebecca Z. German -- Advances in the analysis of form and pattern : facial growth in African colobines / Paul O'Higgins and Ruliang L. Pan -- Cranial variation among the Asian colobines / Ruliang L. Pan and Colin P. Groves -- Craniometric variation in early Homo compared to modern gorillas : a population-thinking approach / Joseph M.A. Miller, Gene H. Albrecht and Bruce R. Gelvin -- Fiber architecture, muscle function and behavior : gluteal and hamstring muscles of semiterrestrial and arboreal guenons / Fred Anapol, Nazima Shahnoor and J. Patrick Gray -- Comparative fiber-type composition and size in the antigravity muscles of primate limbs / Françoise K. Jouffroy and Monique F. Médina -- On the nature of morphology : selected canonical variates analyses of the hominoid hindtarsus and their interpretation / Robert S. Kidd -- Plant mechanics and primate dental adaptations : an overview / Peter W. Lucas -- Convergent evolution in brain shape and locomotion in primates / Willem de Winter -- Jaw adductor force and symphyseal fusion / William L. Hylander [and others] -- Hind limb drive, hind limb steering? Functional differences between fore and hind limbs in chimpanzee quadrupedalism / Yu Li [and others] -- Becoming bipedal : how do theories of bipedalization stand up to anatomical scrutiny? / Nina G. Jablonski and George Chaplin -- Modeling human walking as an inverted pendulum of varying length / Jack T. Stern Jr., Brigitte Demes and D. Casey Kerrigan.

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 -- The evolution of primate ecology : patterns of geography and phylogeny / John G. Fleagle and Kaye E. Reed -- Charles Oxnard and the aye-aye : morphometrics, cladistics, and two very special primates / Colin P. Groves -- From mathematical dissection of anatomies to morphometrics : a twenty-first-century appreciation of Charles Oxnard / Fred L. Bookstein and F. James Rohlf -- Design, level, interface and complexity : morphometric interpretation revisited / Charles E. Oxnard -- Postscript and acknowledgements / Charles E. Oxnard.

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.