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050 00 $aQL737.P9$bE55 2008
245 00 $aElwyn Simons :$ba search for origins /$cJohn G. Fleagle, Christopher C. Gilbert, editors.
260 $aNew York :$bSpringer,$cc2008.
300 $axiv, 460 p. :$bill., maps ;$c25 cm.
440 0 $aDevelopments in primatology
500 $aPapers presented at a festschrift held Sept. 16-17, 2005, in Durham, N.C., on the occasion of Simons's 75 birthday, with some additional contributions. Cf. Pref.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
504 $a"Publications by Elwyn Simons through 2006": p. 429-443.
505 0 $aIntroduction to the festschrift / Fredericka B. Oakley -- Elwyn LaVerne Simons : a very personal view / Friderun Ankel-Simons -- A personal reminiscence of Elwyn / David Pilbeam -- Sir Wilfrid Le Gros Clark : the making of a paleoanthropologist / Bernard Wood -- Sir Wilfrid Le Gros Clark : personal recollections of Le Gros / Elwyn Simons -- Human evolution and the challenge of creationism : a speech given at Duke University, September 16, 2005 / John B. Oakley -- Five decades in the Fayum / Elwyn Simons ... [et al.] -- Geology, paleoenvironment, and age of Birket Qarun Locality 2 (BQ-2), Fayum Depression, Egypt / Erik R. Seiffert ... [et al.] -- Eocene and Oligocene mammals of the Fayum, Egypt / Elwyn Simons -- Early evolution of whales : a century of research in Egypt / Philip D. Gingerich -- The basicranial anatomy of African Eocene/Oligocene anthropoids : are there any clues for platyrrhine origins? / Richard F. Kay, Elwyn Simons and Jennifer L. Ross -- Paleontological exploration in Africa : a view from the Rukwa Rift Basin of Tanzania / Nancy J. Stevens ... [et al.] -- Return to Dor al-Talha : paleontological reconnaissance of the early Tertiary of Libya / D. Tab Rasmussen ... [et al.] -- Revisiting Haritalyangar, the late Miocene ape locality of India / Rajeev Patnaik -- Revisiting primate postcrania from the Pondaung Formation of Myanmar : the purported anthropoid astragalus / Gregg F. Gunnell and Russell L. Ciochcon -- A haplorhine first metatarsal from the Middle Eocene of China / Daniel L. Gebo ... [et al.] -- New data on Loveina (Primates: Omomyidae) from the early Eocene Wasatch Formation and implications for washakiin relationships / Patricia A. Holroyd and Suzanne G. Strait -- The behavioral ecology of our earliest hominid ancestors / R.W. Sussman and Donna Hart -- Decades of lemur research and conservation : the Elwyn Simons influence / Patricia C. Wright -- Low fetal energy deposition rates in lemurs : another energy conservation strategy / Chris Tilden -- Old lemurs : preliminary data on behavior and reproduction from the Duke University Primate Center / Linda Taylor -- Peculiar tooth homologies of the greater bamboo lemur (Prolemur = Hapalemur simus) : when is a paracone not a paracone? / Jukka Jernvall, Christopher C. Gilbert and Patricia C. Wright -- How big were the "giant" extinct lemurs of Madagascar? / William L. Jungers, Brigitte Demes and Laurie R. Godfrey -- Ghosts and orphans : Madagascar's vanishing ecosystems / Laurie R. Godfrey ... [et al.] -- Vicariance vs. dispersal in the origin of the Malagasy mammal fauna / Ian Tattersall -- On the brink of extinction : research for the conservation of the Tonkin snub-nosed monkey (Rhinopithecus avunculus) / Herbert H. Covert, Le Khac Quyet and Barth W. Wright.
650 0 $aPrimates$xEvolution.
650 0 $aPrimates, Fossil.
650 0 $aPaleontology$yPaleogene.
650 0 $aPrimates$xConservation.
650 0 $aHuman evolution.
650 0 $aMammals$xEvolution.
600 10 $aSimons, Elwyn L.
700 1 $aFleagle, John G.
700 1 $aGilbert, Christopher C.
700 1 $aSimons, Elwyn L.