The Primate fossil record

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Preface Acknowledgements 1. Introduction to the primate fossil record Walter Carl Hartwig 2. The origin of primates David Tab Rasmussen Part I. The Earliest Primates and the Fossil Record of Prosimians: 3. The earliest fossil primates and the evolution of prosimians Herbert H. Covert 4. Adapiformes: phylogeny and adaptation Daniel L. Gebo 5. Tarsiiformes: evolutionary history and adaptation Gregg F. Gunnell and Kenneth D. Rose 6. Fossil lorisoids Erica Phillips and Alan C. Walker 7. Quaternary fossil lemurs Laurie R. Godfrey and William L. Jungers Part II. The Origin and Diversification of Anthropoid Primates: 8. The origin and diversification of anthropoid primates - introduction Marian Dagosto 9. Basal anthropoids K. Christopher Beard 10. Platyrrhine paleontology and systematics: the paradigm shifts Alfred L. Rosenberger 11. Early platyrrhines of southern South America John G. Fleagle and Marcelo F. Tejedor 12. Miocene platyrrhines of the northern neotropics Walter Carl Hartwig and D. Jeffrey Meldrum 13. Extinct Quaternary platyrrhines of the Greater Antilles and Brazil Ross D. E. MacPhee and Ines Horovitz Part III. The Fossil Record of the Early Catarrhines and Old World Monkeys: 14. Early catarrhines of the African Eocene and Oligocene David Tab Rasmussen 15. The Pliopithecoidea David Begun 16. The Victoriapithecidae, Cercopithecoidea Brenda Benefit and Monte L. McCrossin 17. Fossil Old World monkeys: the Late Neogene radiation Nina G. Jablonski Part IV. The Fossil Record of Hominoid Primates: 18. Perspectives on the Miocene Hominoidea David R. Pilbeam 19. Late Oligocene to Middle Miocene catarrhines from Afro-Arabia Terry Harrison 20. European hominoids David Begun 21. The hominoid radiation in Asia Jay Kelley 22. Middle and Late Miocene African hominoids Steven C. Ward and Dana Duren Part V. The Fossil Record of Human Ancestry: 23. Introduction to the fossil record of human ancestry Henry M. McHenry 24. Earliest hominids Tim D. White 25. Early genus Homo Holly Dunsworth and Alan C. Walker 26. Migrations, radiations and continuity: patterns in the evolution of Middle and Late Pleistocene humans Fred Smith References cited Index.