Fossil Primates

Susan Cachel is Professor of Physical Anthropology at Rutgers University. She is on the Executive Committee of the Rutgers Center for Human Evolutionary Studies (CHES) since 2010 and a member of the graduate interdisciplinary Quaternary Studies Program at Rutgers since 2000. She has taught and performed research at the Koobi Fora Field School in northern Kenya, and she is currently a research associate of the Kenya National Museums (Nairobi). She was recently elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science for 'incisive contributions to hominization theory, the role of nutritional fat in human occupation of high latitudes, and primate evolution'. Her previous title, Primate and Human Evolution, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2006.

• Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction: primates in evolutionary time; 2. Primate taxonomy; 3. Fossils and fossilization; 4. The world of the past; 5. The lifeways of extinct animals; 6. Evolutionary processes and the pattern of primate evolution; 7. Primate origins; 8. The Paleocene primate radiation; 9. The Eocene primate radiation; 10. The Malagasy primate radiation; 11. The Oligocene bottleneck; 12. Rise of the anthropoids; 13. The platyrrhine radiation; 14. The Miocene hominoid radiation; 15. The cercopithecoid radiation; 16. Late Cenozoic climate changes; 17. Conclusions; References; Index.

'… students will get a lively introduction to some of the palaeobiology and geographical/ecological context of many of our non-hominin fossil relatives.' Todd C. Rae, Primate Eye