1. Introduction to carnivora Anjali Goswami 2. Phylogeny of the carnivora and carnivoramorpha, and the use of the fossil record to enhance understanding of evolutionary transformations John J. Flynn, John A. Finarelli and Michelle Spaulding 3. Phylogeny of the viverridae and 'viverrid-like' feliforms Geraldine Veron 4. Molecular and morphological evidence for ailuridae and a review of its genera Michael Morlo and Stephane Peigne 5. The influence of character correlations on phylogenetic analyses: a case study of the carnivoran cranium Anjali Goswami and P. David Polly 6. What's the difference?: a multiphasic allometric analysis of fossil and living lions Matthew H. Benoit 7. Evolution in carnivora: identifying a morphological bias Jill A. Holliday 8. The biogeography of carnivore ecomorphology Lars Werdelin and Gina D. Wesley-Hunt 9. Comparative ecomorphology and biogeography of herpestidae and viverridae (carnivora) in Africa and Asia Gina D. Wesley-Hunt, Reihaneh Dehghani and Lars Werdelin 10. Ecomorphological analysis of carnivore guilds in the Eocene through Miocene of Laurasia Michael Morlo, Gregg F. Gunnell and Doris Nagel 11. Ecomorphology of North American Eocene carnivores: evidence for competition between carnivorans and creodonts Anthony R. Friscia and Blaire Van Valkenburgh 12. Morphometric analysis of cranial morphology in pinnipeds (mammalia, carnivora): convergence, ecology, ontogeny, and dimorphism Katrina E. Jones and Anjali Goswami 13. Tiptoeing through the trophics: geographic variation in carnivoran locomotor ecomorphology in relation to environment P. David Polly 14. Interpreting sabretooth cat (carnivora felidae machairodontinae) postcranial morphology in light of scaling patterns in felids Margaret E. Lewis and Michael R. Lague 15. Cranial mechanics of mammalian carnivores: recent advances using a finite element approach Stephen Wroe.