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a search for origins

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2007, Springer London, Limited
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Table of Contents

Introduction 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.

Edition Notes

Papers 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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Publications by Elwyn Simons through 2006": p. 429-443.

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Series
Developments in primatology

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Library of Congress
QL737.P9 E55 2008, QL1-991QH359-425, QH

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xiv, 460 p. :
Number of pages
460

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Open Library
OL16942298M
Internet Archive
elwynsimonssearc00flea_437
ISBN 10
0387738959
ISBN 13
9780387738956
LCCN
2007936873
OCLC/WorldCat
175285160
Goodreads
2796604

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