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  title info:
    title: Mammalian Evolutionary Morphology
    sub title: A Tribute to Frederick S. Szalay
  name:
    name part: Sargis, Eric J.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Dagosto, Marian.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2008
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XXVIII, 440 p. online resource.
  abstract: This volume acknowledges and celebrates the contributions of Dr. Frederick S. Szalay to the field of Mammalian Evolutionary Morphology. Professor Szalay has published about 200 articles, four monographs, and six books on this subject. Throughout his career Professor Szalay has been a strong advocate for biologically and evolutionarily meaningful character analysis. In his view, this can be accomplished only through an integrated strategy of functional, adaptational, and historical analysis. Dr. Szalay worked on several different mammalian groups during his career, and the contributions to this volume reflect his broad perspective. Chapters focus on Primates, a group to which Professor Szalay dedicated much of his career. However, other mammalian groups on which he conducted a significant amount of research, such as marsupials and xenarthrans, are also covered in the volume. This book will be of interest to professionals and graduate students in a wide variety of related fields, including functional morphology, systematics, vertebrate paleontology, mammalogy, primatology, biological anthropology, and evolutionary biology. .
  table of contents: Non-primate Mammals -- Earliest Evidence of Deltatheroida (Mammalia: Metatheria) from the Early Cretaceous of North America -- Evolution of Hind Limb Proportions in Kangaroos (Marsupialia: Macropodoidea) -- Changing Views in Paleontology: The Story of a Giant (Megatherium, Xenarthra) -- Evolutionary Morphology of the Tenrecoidea (Mammalia) Forelimb Skeleton -- Postcranial Morphology of Apheliscus and Haplomylus (Condylarthra, Apheliscidae): Evidence for a Paleocene Holarctic Origin of Macroscelidea -- Postcranial Skeleton of the Upper Paleocene (Itaboraian) “Condylarthra” (Mammalia) of Itaboraí Basin, Brazil -- Postcranial Osteology of Mammals from Salla, Bolivia (Late Oligocene): Form, Function, and Phylogenetic Implications -- Evolution of the Proximal Third Phalanx in Oligocene-Miocene Equids, and the Utility of Phalangeal Indices in Phylogeny Reconstruction -- Adaptive Zones and the Pinniped Ankle: A Three-Dimensional Quantitative Analysis of Carnivoran Tarsal Evolution -- Primates -- The Biogeographic Origins of Primates and Euprimates: East, West, North, or South of Eden? -- Evaluating the Mitten-Gliding Hypothesis for Paromomyidae and Micromomyidae (Mammalia, “Plesiadapiformes”) Using Comparative Functional Morphology of New Paleogene Skeletons -- Morphological Diversity in the Skulls of Large Adapines (Primates, Adapiformes) and Its Systematic Implications -- Primate Tibiae from the Middle Eocene Shanghuang Fissure-Fillings of Eastern China -- Rooneyia, Postorbital Closure, and the Beginnings of the Age of Anthropoidea -- Epitensoric Position of the Chorda Tympani in Anthropoidea: a New Synapomorphic Character, with Remarks on the Fissura Glaseri in Primates -- Evolutionary Morphology of the Guenon Postcranium and Its Taxonomic Implications -- Analysis of Selected Hominoid Joint Surfaces Using Laser Scanning and Geometric Morphometrics: A Preliminary Report -- Comparative Primate Bone Microstructure: Records of Life History, Function, and Phylogeny. .
  note: edited by Eric J. Sargis, Marian Dagosto.
  subject:
    topic: Earth sciences
  subject:
    topic: Paleontology
  subject:
    topic: Evolutionary biology
  subject:
    topic: Zoology
  subject:
    topic: Animal anatomy
  subject:
    topic: Vertebrates
  subject:
    topic: Anthropology
  subject:
    topic: Earth Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Paleontology
  subject:
    topic: Evolutionary Biology
  subject:
    topic: Zoology
  subject:
    topic: Vertebrates
  subject:
    topic: Animal Anatomy / Morphology / Histology
  subject:
    topic: Anthropology
  classification: QE701-760
  classification: 560
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
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    title info:
      title: Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology Series
  identifier: 9781402069970
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6997-0
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