Table of Contents

1 The Early Radiation of Euprimates and the Initial Diversification of Omomyidae.- 2 Recently Recovered Specimens of North American Eocene Omomyids and Adapids and Their Bearing on Debates about Anthropoid Origins.- 3 Cranial Anatomy of Shoshonius and the Antiquity of Anthropoidea.- 4 The Messel Primates and Anthropoid Origins.- 5 Relative Ages of Eocene Primate-Bearing Deposits of Asia.- 6 The Asian Origin of Anthropoidea Revisited.- 7 Rencunius zhoui, New Primate from the Late Middle Eocene of Henan, China, and a Comparison with Some Early Anthropoidea.- 8 The Eocene Origin of Anthropoid Primates: Adaptation, Evolution, and Diversity.- 9 Eocene Anthropoid Postcrania from the Fayum, Egypt.- 10 Early North African Primates and Their Significance for the Origin of Simiiformes (= Anthropoidea).- 11 Paleogeography, Paleobiogeography, and Anthropoid Origins.- 12 The Different Meanings of a Tarsioid — Anthropoid Clade and a New Model of Anthropoid Origin.- 13 Dental Evidence for AnthropoidOrigins.- 14 Function and Fusion of the Mandibular Symphysis in Primates: Stiffness or Strength?.- 15 The Craniofacial Evidence for Anthropoid and Tarsier Relationships.- 16 Anatomy, Antinomies, and the Problem of Anthropoid Origins.- 17 Postcranial Anatomy and the Origin of the Anthropoidea.- 18 Primitive Platyrrhines? Perspectives on Anthropoid Origins from Platyrrhine, Parapithecid, and Preanthropoid Posteronia.- 19 Anthropoid Origins: Past, Present, and Future.- Systematic Index.- Geological and Geographic Index.