Contents

pp vii-viii

List of Contributors

pp ix-xi

Acknowledgements: The European Science Foundation

pp xii-xii

PART I: Chronology and environment

pp 1-1

1 - Chronology and zoogeography of the Miocene hominoid record in Europe

pp 2-18

2 - The trophic context of hominoid occurrence in the later Miocene of western Eurasia: a primate-free view

pp 19-48

PART II: Methods and phylogeny

pp 49-49

3 - Computer-assisted morphometry of hominoid fossils: the role of morphometric maps

pp 50-59

4 - Comparative analysis of the iliac trabecular architecture in extant and fossil primates by means of digital image processing techniques: implications for the reconstruction of fossil locomotor behaviours

pp 60-101

5 - Dental microwear and diet in Eurasian Miocene catarrhines

pp 102-117

6 - How reliable are current estimates of fossil catarrhine phylogeny? An assessment using extant great apes and Old World monkeys

pp 118-150

7 - Cranial discrete variation in the great apes: new prospects in palaeoprimatology

pp 151-190

PART III - Miocone hominoids: function and phylogeny

pp 191-191

8 - Eurasian hominoid evolution in the light of recent Dryopithecus findings

pp 192-212

9 - Functional morphology of Ankarapithecus meteai

pp 213-230

10 - African and Eurasian Miocene hominoids and the origins of the Hominidae

pp 231-253

11 - Phylogenetic relationships of Ouranopithecus macedoniensis (Mammalia, Primates, Hominoidea, Hominidae) of the late Miocene deposits of Central Macedonia (Greece)

pp 254-268

12 - Phylogeny and sexually dimorphic characters: Canine reduction in Ouranopithecus

pp 269-283

13 - Heterochrony and the cranial anatomy of Oreopithecus: some cladistic fallacies and the significance of developmental constraints in phylogenetic analysis

pp 284-315

14 - The late Miocene hominoid from Georgia

pp 316-325

15 - Forelimb function, bone curvature and phylogeny of Sivapithecus

pp 326-348

16 - Sivapithecus and hominoid evolution: some brief comments

pp 349-364

Index

pp 365-372