ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD CATARRHINE
From New Latin Catarrhina , all ultimately from Greek katarrhin having a hooked nose, from kata- down + rhis nose.
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CATARRHINE»
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The Primate Fossil Record
The new material was interpreted as indicating that Oligopithecus was indeed a
basal catarrhine, not a cercopithecoid or adapid, but one which may have
evolved from an adapid ancestry. Also in the middle 1980s, American geologist
and ...
Walter Carl Hartwig, 2002
2
Vertical Climbing Adaptations in the Anthropoid Ankle and ...
Accession Geological Family Taxon Body mass number age estimate KNM-SO
389 19.5" Hominoid Proconsul 49.4 □ 1,2,4,5 major KNM-SO 1402 19.5"
Catarrhine Rangwapithecus gordonil5 12.5 KNM-SO 1705 19.5" Catarrhine P.
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Handbook of Paleoanthropology: Vol I:Principles, Methods and ...
Interpretations that preceded the discovery of the Eocene anthropoids typically
placed parapithecids as the sister group of a combined catarrhine-platyrrhine
clade, but the precise branching relationships among basal anthropoid lineages
has ...
Winfried Henke, Ian Tattersall, Thorolf Hardt, 2007
"narrow-nosed" condition of catarrhine primates involves an alteration of — or, as
von Baer would have described it, a deviation away from — the embryonic or
fetal condition common to mammals. As Hofer put it in a recent article: "Probably
...
Jeffrey H. Schwartz, 1997
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Hominoid Brain Organization: Histometric and Morphometric ...
This chapter is devoted to the catarrhine visual system. First, the catarrhine visual
system is described. Next, the history of visual cortex parcellation and the
methods used to study the catarrhine visual cortex are briefly described. Third,
this ...
Alexandra Allison de Sousa, 2008
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Behavioral Primatology: Advances in Research and Theory
H. "Platyrrhine," "Catarrhine," "New World," and “Old World" The higher primates
are sometimes divided into two groups, the Platyrrhini (broad-nosed) and the
Catarrhini (narrow-nosed).4 These taxonomic terms have given origin to the
English ...
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Encyclopedia of Human Evolution and Prehistory: Second Edition
Catarrhine. Characteristics. Defining the catarrhines by means of uniquely
shared characters depends upon which taxa are considered when such a list is
developed. If only the living formsareexamined, thelistofsuchcharacters is long
and ...
Eric Delson, Ian Tattersall, John Van Couvering, 2000
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Primate Adaptation and Evolution: 3rd Edn
CATARRHINE. ANATOMY. Catarrhines are characterized by numerous
anatomical specializations that set them apart from the more primitive
platyrrhines. The name is derived from the shape of their nostrils, which are often
narrow and facing ...
9
Learning and Emotion: A Biological Synthesis
specimens, Apidium, a genus perhaps related to the Old World or catarrhine
monkeys, and Dolichocebus, a likely ancestor of the New World or platyr- rhine
monkeys of South America. For the Old World monkeys or cercopithecoids, two ...
10
Primate Functional Morphology and Evolution
(2) Was the beginning of the known catarrhine divergence sometime during the
late Eocene? (3) Were -taxa of either anthropoid or catarrhine level of
organization present in any part of the world prior to this time? Each of the two
major groups ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CATARRHINE»
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Problem 9: Neo-Darwinism Struggles to Explain the …
... and morphological evidence, New World platyrrhine monkeys are thought to be descended from African "Old World" or "catarrhine" monkeys. «Discovery Institute, Feb 15»
Sure, Humans Might Lack a Jacobson's Organ. We're Still Decent at …
In the catarrhine primates, like macaques, it is generally absent, or reduced, with some indeterminate function. Sniff away because we have ... «Slate Magazine, Aug 14»
Critics go bananas for monkeys... in a movie about apes
Apes are anthopoid catarrhine primates native to Southeast Asia and Africa while monkeys are primates of the Haplorrhini suborder and simian ... «Globalnews.ca, Jul 14»
'Monkey Facebook': The Message Inherent in Diverse Faces of …
... catarrhine (Old World monkeys and apes) radiations. The researchers found that facial color patterns have an intimate link with social factors. «iScienceTimes.com, Nov 13»
Dolphins and Porpoises and...Bats? Oh My! Evolution's …
... 1997) and the "independent origin of Prosimian, Platyrrhine, and Catarrhine Mhc-DRB genes" (Kriener et al., 2000). Moreover, Jost et al. «Discovery Institute, May 12»
Do new discoveries ever “rewrite evolutionary history”?
They found that the catarrhine tree is far more stable than that of the dinosaurs. For the latter group, claims about new fossils that rewrite ... «Discover Magazine, Sep 10»
New Primate Fossil Informs Us of the Ape-Monkey Split During the …
Major early Oligocene to early middle Miocene Afro-Arabian catarrhine primate sites. Key: 1, Harrat Al Ujayfa, Saudi Arabia; 2, Thaytiniti, Oman; ... «ScienceBlogs, Aug 10»
Old World monkeys and apes diverged later than thought, new fossil …
Based on fossils and other lines of evidence, experts long assumed that the two catarrhine lineages diverged from a common ancestor at some ... «NatGeo News Watch, Aug 10»
Fossil skull fingered as ape–monkey ancestor
... palaeontologists to reconstruct the branches of the catarrhine family ... hypotheses" about how the shape of catarrhine skulls changed over ... «Nature.com, Jul 10»
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This fossil cranium of a new stem catarrhine from western Saudi Arabia allows palaeontologists to place a more accurate date than previously possible on the ... «Nature.com, Jul 10»
