Function Phylogeny And Fossils
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Function, Phylogeny, and Fossils
Author: David R. Begun
language: en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date: 2013-11-21
An insightful new work, Function, Phylogeny, and Fossils integrates two practices in paleobiology which are often separated - functional and phylogenetic analysis. The book summarizes the evidence on paleoenvironments at the most important Miocene hominoid sites and relates it to the pertinent fossil record. The contributors present the most up-to-date statements on the functional anatomy and likely behavior of the best known hominoids of this crucial period of ape and human evolution. A key feature is a comprehensive table listing 240 characteristics among 13 genera of living and extinct hominoids.
Functional Morphology in Vertebrate Paleontology
Author: Jeff Thomason
language: en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date: 1997-10-28
Looks at how fossil vertebrates moved, fed and reproduced.
Hominoid Evolution and Climatic Change in Europe: Volume 2
Author: Louis de Bonis
language: en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date: 2001-05-03
What is the place of Europe in the origin of humankind? While our earliest human ancestors may have come out of Africa, many of our more recent ancestors and those of other primates left their fossil remains in Europe and the Near East. Hominoid primates including Dryopithecus in Spain and Hungary, Oreopithecus in Italy, and Ouranopithecus in Greece flourished in the Miocene, approximately 10-7 million years ago. This volume examines these and other hominoid fossils found in Eurasia and discusses what we can learn using biostratigraphic and ecological frameworks. In addition, new methods of analyzing and visualizing fossil hominoids are explored, including CT-based and computer-assisted virtual reconstruction of fossils to allow three-dimensional images of external and internal morphology of even fragmentary or distorted fossils. This volume will be invaluable for practicing palaeoanthropologists and palaeontologists regardless of specialty.