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Elwyn Simons: A Search for Origins (Hardcover)
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Elwyn Simons: A Search for Origins (Hardcover)
Series: Developments in Primatology: Progress and Prospects
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Elwyn Simons has held professional appointments at Yale University
(1960-1977), Duke University (1977-present), and was the Director
of the Duke Primate Center (1977-1991) and Scientific Director
(1991-2001). He has authored nearly 300 scientific publications and
is the holder of many high honors. He is a member of the United
States National Academy of Sciences, the American Philosophical
Society, as well as many other professional associations. He was
elected a Knight of the National Order by the government of
Madagascar and has been the recipient of many awards including the
prestigious Charles R. Darwin Award for Lifetime Achievement from
the American Association of Physical Anthropologists. For nearly a
half century, Dr. Simons has dominated the study of primate
evolution. The volume summarizes the current state of knowledge in
many aspects of primate and human evolution that have been studied
by Simons and his colleagues and place it in a broader
paleontological and historical perspective. Elwyn Simons: A Search
for Origins contains the results of new research and reviews of
many of the critical issues in primate and human evolution during
the last half of the twentieth century as well as aspects of
African paleontology and primate conservation in Madagascar. The
authors are an extremely distinguished group of international
authorities on all aspects of primate and human evolution and
primate behavior. Although linked primarily by their connection to
Simons? own career, the chapters include a wide range of important
new works that are valuable contributions to the field of physical
anthropology and paleontology and are certain to be widely cited
and used in teaching.Several of the papers (Simons et al., Wing et
al., Seiffert et al., Gingerich, O?Conner) are broad reviews of the
history of research and discoveries in the fossil deposits of the
Fayum, Egypt that have formed the background of our understanding
of anthropoid evolution for over a century and will be important
researchers for students and researchers in primate evolution and
African paleontology. Similarly, broad reviews of the history of
primate paleontology and human evolution (Rasmussen, Pilbeam, Wood;
Sussman and Hart) will be essential reading in courses in primate
and human evolution as well as the history of physical
anthropology. Other authors describe new research results on early
anthropoid fossils from Egypt (Kay and Simons) Tanzania (Stevens)
and Myanmar (Gunnell and Ciochon). The chapter by John Oakley,
Professor of Law at the University of California addresses the
challenges to the teaching of evolution in schools- both public and
universities world wide. Another major focus of several chapters
are the primates of Madagascar. Two chapters are reviews of the
extraordinary radiation of fossil lemurs (Godfrey et al, Jungers et
al.). Two review the behavior and conservation of living lemurs
(Taylor and Wright) and the chapter by Tattersall bridges the two
major sections of the book by discussing about the biogeographic
history of Malagasy mammals.
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