Author: Ciochon, Russell L. & Chiarelli, A. Brunetto; editors:
Title: Evolutionary Biology of the New World Monkeys and Continental Drift
Description: New York / London, Plenum Press, (1980). orig.boards. 25x16cm, xv,528 pp, Pencilled underling & marginal notes to pages 106-155, 219-315, 445-501. Name inked on flyleaf. In a chipped. Textual maps,photos,tables.. Rubbed. Some ink marks to side page-edges. Good. dustwrapper. ¶ Pencilled notes to margins of table-of-contents. Series: Advances in Primatology. Contains 25 papers. includes: D.H. Tarling "The Geologic Evolution of South America with Special Reference to the Last 200 Million Years"; M.C. McKenna "Early History & Biogeography of South America's Extinct Land Mammals"; A.E. Wood "The Origin of the Caviomorph Rodents from a Source in Middle America: A Clue to the Area of Origin of the Platyrrhine Primates"; R. Lavocat "The Implications of Rodent Paleontology & Biogeography to the Geographical Sources & Origin of Platyrrhine Primates"; R. Hoffstetter "Origin & Development of New World Monkeys Emphasizing the Southern Continents Route"; P.D. Gingerich "Eocene Adapidae, Paleobiogeography & the Origins of South American Platyrrhini"; A.L. Rosenberger & F.S. Szalay "On the Tarsiform Origins of Anthropoidea"; R.F. Kay "Platyyrrhine Origins: A Reappraisal of Dental Evidence"; F.J. Orlosky "Dental Evolutionary Trends of Relevance to the Origin & Dispersion of the Platyrrhine Monkeys"; W. Maier "Nasal Structures in Old &New World Primates"; M. Cartmill "Morphology, Function & Evolution of the Anthropoid Postorbital Septum"; D. Falk "Comparative Study of the Endocranial Casts of New & Old World Monkeys"; J. Bugge "Comparative Anatomical Study of the Carotid Circulation in New & Old Worlld Primates: Implications for their Evolutionary History"; S.M. Ford "Phylogenetic Relationships of the Platyrrhini: The Evidence of the Femur"; E.M. Perkins & W.C. Meyer "The Phylogenetic Significance of the Skin of Primates:

Keywords: Primate Evolution, New World Primates, Paleontology, Platyrrhine Anatomy, South America, Paleobiogeography, Biogeography, Continental Drift, Primatology Monkeys