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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"anthropoid"”.
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Functional morphology of the anthropoid talocrural joint
The form and function of the talocrural joint of anthropoids is frequently used to infer positional behaviors of fossil catarrhines without clear and quantitative data to support these inferences. Specifically, greater medial and posterior trochlear wedging, shallower trochleae and more obliquely …
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Endocranial volume and shape variation in early anthropoid evolution
… Fossil taxa included in these analyses are: 1) anthropoids Parapithecus, Aegyptopithecus (Early Oligocene, Egypt), Homunculus and Tremacebus (Early Miocene, Argentina), and 2) Eocene euprimates Adapis and Leptadapis (Eocene adapoids, France), and the Rooneyia (Eocene omomyoid, Texas). </p><p>The …
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Evolutionary Relationship between Life History and Brain Growth in Anthropoid Primates
… of species set the pace of life history. Among anthropoids, there is a great deal of variation in growth rates and the pace of life history relative to body size. The hypotheses proposed by this project state that the degree of encephalization in a species determines the growth rates, the length …
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Evolution Of Lactate Dehydrogenase Genes In Primates, With Special Consideration Of Nucleotide Organization In Mammalian Promoters
… resources to the brain increased during stem anthropoid evolution, leading to humans. One mechanism by which this allocation may have occurred is through greater use of lactate as a neuronal fuel. Both the production of lactate, and conversion to pyruvate for use in aerobic metabolism, are …
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Platyrrhine Phylogenetics With A Focus On Callitrichine Life History Adaptations
… to determine the most recent common ancestor of Anthropoid primates we took a phylogenomic approach, using the publicly available whole genome sequences of 17 mammal species. With high confidence, we determined here that Tarsier is the most recent common ancestor to Anthropoid primates. Secondly, …
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Insight Into Human Brain Evolution Through Phylogenetic Analysis And Comparative Genomics
… that variation in brain size began in anthropoid primates. Furthermore, we show multiple lineages have evidence of brain expansion, providing support for parallelism in encephalization. To provide molecular evidence for parallelism in brain expansion among primates, we implement a …
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The 'I'-tag theory of perception, memory and consciousness.
… of Jewish mysticism in which an artificial anthropoid the golem-was said to be created through linguistic techniques.
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Design and dynamic simulation of mobile manipulators incorporating tribological analysis of 16MnCr5 and EN19 steels.
… for two types for manipulators, i.e. anthropoid and complex closed-loop manipulators are presented. The combined friction model (CFM) was incorporated into this simulation considering the importance of friction as a tribological component affecting the dynamic performance of such …
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Evolution of the Hominoid Vertebral Column
… representing all major groups and focusing on anthropoid primates, allow for the reconstruction of ancestral vertebral formulae throughout mammalian evolution and a determination of the uniqueness of hominoid vertebral formulae. This survey, in combination with analyses of intraspecific …
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Natural Disorder: The Animal Image in French and British Art before Darwin, c. 1790-1859
… it was perpetuated through imagery equating the anthropoid ape with the black African human. In these case studies, I trace an increasing loss of confidence in human dominion as a divinely ordained natural order and a correlative rise of a seemingly disordered world in which humanity's once …
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Reimagining the Inner Ear: A Morphometric Modeling Approach for Establishing Shape Change in the Evolution of the Human Otolith System
… It then applies the model to a sample of extant anthropoid primates and fossil hominins to elucidate the comparative and evolutionary aspects of the human otolith system. The morphometric model is generated using new visualization modalities combining spherical harmonic-based and landmark-based …
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Sex-specific reproductive strategies in redfronted lemurs (Eulemur fulvus rufus, Primates, Lemuridae)
… competition, the sex ratio of groups of anthropoid primates is generally female-biased. Gregarious Malagasy lemurs deviate from theoretical expectations derived from sexual selection theory and from patterns found among anthropoids because they live in relatively small groups with an even …