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Authors: Elizabeth Strasser (Editor), Alfred L. Rosenberger (Editor), John Fleagle
ISBN-13: 9780306460227, ISBN-10: 030646022X
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York, LLC
Date Published: July 2008
Edition: New Edition

Author Biography: Elizabeth Strasser

Book Synopsis

Pt. I	Naturalistic Behavior
	Introduction	3
1	Methodological Issues in Studying Positional Behavior: Meeting Ripley's Challenge	5
2	Fine-Grained Differences within Positional Categories: A Case Study of Pithecia and Chiropotes	31
3	Patterns of Suspensory Feeding in Alouatta palliata, Ateles geoffroyi, and Cebus capucinus	45
4	Within- and Between-Site Variability in Moustached Tamarin (Saguinus mystax) Positional Behavior during Food Procurement	61
5	Locomotion, Support Use, Maintenance Activities, and Habitat Structure: The Case of the Tai Forest Cercopithecids	79
6	The Gorilla Paradox: The Effects of Body Size and Habitat on the Positional Behavior of Lowland and Mountain Gorillas	95
Pt. II	Morphology and Behavior
	Introduction	109
7	Reconstruction of Hip Joint Function in Extant and Fossil Primates	111
8	Grasping Performance in Saguinus midas and the Evolution of Hand Prehensility in Primates	131
9	Tail-Assisted Hind Limb Suspension as a Transitional Behavior in the Evolution of the Platyrrhine Prehensile Tail	145
10	Unique Aspects of Quadrupedal Locomotion in Nonhuman Primates	157
11	Forelimb Mechanics during Arboreal and Terrestrial Quadrupedalism in Old World Monkeys	175
Pt. III	Data Acquisition and Analytic Techniques
	Introduction	203
12	Advances in Three-Dimensional Data Acquisition and Analysis	205
13	Laser Scanning and Paleoanthropology: An Example from Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania	223
14	Use of Strain Gauges in the Study of Primate Locomotor Biomechanics	237
15	The Information Content of Morphometric Data in Primates: Function, Development, and Evolution	255
16	Heterochronic Approaches to the Study of Locomotion	277
17	Body Size and Scaling of Long Bone Geometry, Bone Strength, and Positional Behavior in Cercopithecoid Primates	309
Pt. IV	Fossils and Reconstructing the Origins and Evolution of Taxa
	Introduction	333
18	Afropithecus, Proconsul, and the Primitive Hominoid Skeleton	337
19	Fossil Evidence for the Origins of Terrestriality among Old World Higher Primates	353
20	Ecological Morphology of Australopithecus afarensis: Traveling Terrestrially, Eating Arboreally	397
21	Time and Energy: The Ecological Context for the Evolution of Bipedalism	419
22	Heel, Squat, Stand, Stride: Function and Evolution of Hominoid Feet	435
23	Evolution of the Hominid Hip	449
	Index	471

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