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Table of Contents
Preface
Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Introduction
Phylogenetic relationships among modern humans and other primates
Reliability of phylogenies and the use of myological data in cladistic analyses
The study of primate muscles
Goals of the present study and structure of the dissertation
Chapter 2. Materials & Methods
Taxonomic nomenclature, biological material, and dissections
Anatomical regions, nomenclature, and tables
Homology
Cladistic analyses
Chapter 3. Phylogenetic analyses of primates based on the muscles of the head, neck, pectoral region and upper limb
Results of the cladistic analyses
Synapomorphies of clades and apomorphies of terminal taxa
List of phylogenetic characters
- Mandibular muscles
- Hyoid muscles
- Branchial muscles
- Hypobranchial muscles
- Pectoral muscles
- Arm muscles
- Ventral (volar) forearm muscles
- Hand muscles
- Dorsal forearm muscles
Chapter 4. General remarks on the evolution of the head, neck, pectoral region and upper limb muscles of primates, with notes on their evolution in hominoids
References
Appendix I. Tables of primate head, neck, pectoral and upper limb muscles
Mandibular muscles of Strepsirrhini and Tarsiiformes (Table A1)
Hyoid muscles of Strepsirrhini and Tarsiiformes (Table A2)
Brachial muscles of Strepsirrhini and Tarsiiformes (Table A3)
Hypobrachial muscles of Strepsirrhini and Tarsiiformes (Table A4)
Pectoral and upper limb muscles of Strepsirrhini and Tarsiiformes (Table A5)
Mandibular muscles of Platyrrhini (Table A6)
Hyoid muscles of Platyrrhini (Table A7)
Brachial muscles of Platyrrhini (Table A8)
Hypobrachial muscles of Platyrrhini (Table A9)
Pectoral and upper limb muscles of Platyrrhini (Table A10)
Mandibular muscles of Cercopithecidae (Table A11)
Hyoid muscles of Cercopithecidae (Table A12)
Brachial muscles of Cercopithecidae (Table A13)
Hypobrachial muscles of Cercopithecidae (Table A14)
Pectoral and upper limb muscles of Cercopithecidae (Table A15)
Mandibular muscles of Hominoidea (Table A16)
Hyoid muscles of Hominoidea (Table A17)
Brachial muscles of Hominoidea (Table A18)
Hypobrachial muscles of Hominoidea (Table A19)
Pectoral and upper limb muscles of Hominoidea (Table A20)
Appendix II. Photographs of primate head, neck, pectoral and upper limb muscles
Lemur catta (Figs. A1-A13)
Propithecus verrauxi (Figs. A14-A23)
Loris tardigradus (Figs. A24-A28)
Nycticebus coucang (Figs. A29-A33)
Tarsius syrichta (Figs. A34-A45)
Pithecia pithecia (Figs. A46-A51)
Aotus nancymaae (Figs. A52-A59)
Callithrix jacchus (Figs. A60-A70)
Saimiri sciureus (Figs. A71-A78)
Colobus guereza (Figs. A79-A87)
Cercopithecus diana (Figs. A88-A93)
Papio anubis (Figs. A94-A99)
Macaca mulatta, Macaca silenus, and Macaca fascicularis (Figs. A100-A114)
Hylobates lar and Hylobates gabriellae (Figs. A115-A145)
Pongo pygmaeus (Figs. A146-A166)
Gorilla gorilla (Figs. A167-A194)
Pan troglodytes (Figs. A195-A243)
About the Author:
Rui Diogo is a biologist undertaking research at the Center for the Advanced Study of Hominid Paleobiology of George Washington University (US). He participated in numerous publications, including the edition of the books Catfishes and Gonorynchiformes and ostariophysan interrelationships - a comprehensive review. He is the single author or first author of the books Morphological evolution, aptations, homoplasies, constraints and evolutionary trends - catfishes as a case study on general phylogeny and macroevolution, The origin of higher clades - osteology, myology, phylogeny and evolution of bony fishes and the rise of tetrapods, Muscles of vertebrates - comparative anatomy, evolution, homologies and development, and Photographic and descriptive musculoskeletal atlas of Gorilla - with notes on the attachments, variations, innervation, synonymy and weight of the muscles.
Bernard Wood is University Professor of Human Origins and directs the Center for the Advanced Study of Hominid Paleobiology of George Washington University (USA). His edited publications include Food Acquisition and Processing in Primates and Major Topics in Primate and Human Evolution. He is author or co-author of The Evolution of Early Man, Human Evolution, Koobi Fora Research Project - Hominid Cranial Remains (Vol. 4), Human Evolution - A Very Short Introduction, Photographic and descriptive musculoskeletal atlas of Gorilla - with notes on the attachments, variations, innervation, synonymy and weight of the muscles, and he is the editor of Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Human Evolution.
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