Primate evolution
Evidence from the fossil record, comparative morphology, and molecular biology
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8311561 |
|---|---|
| Authors | P D Gingerich (0000-0002-1550-2674, University of Michigan, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1984 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | S5 |
| Pages | 57-72 |
| Publication date | 1984-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Journal of Physical Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-9483 • E-ISSN: 1096-8644 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/ajpa.1330270504 |
| OpenAlex | W2048307773 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 26 |
| References cited | 28 |
Our understanding of primate evolution is ultimately based on patterns of phyletic relationship and morphological change documented in the fossil record. Stratophenetic interpretation of living and fossil primates yields an objective alternative to the arbitrary scala naturae assumed implicitly in traditional comparative biology. Fossils provide an outline of primate history constraining comparative analyses incorporating taxa and morphological characteristics not represented in the fossil record. Extant taxa without known prehistoric relatives may be interpolated into this outline using deductive cladistic analysis of morphological characteristics and overall molecular similarity. Cladistic analysis provides a method for evaluating the relative strength of stratophenetic links between taxa. The phyletic node connecting Anthropoidea-Adapoidea-Lemuroidea is analyzed here as an example: the link between Eocene Adapoidea and primitive Anthropoidea appears stronger than that between Adapoidea and Lemuroidea because it is based on shared-derived rather than shared-primitive characteristics. Full integration of molecular results with morphological information requires a better understanding of rates of molecular change over geological time. Rates of molecular evolution can be studied using paleontologically documented divergence times for Prosimii-Anthropoidea (ca. 55 m.y.B.P.), Platyrrhini-Catarrhini (ca. 40 m.y.B.P.), and Hominoidea-Cercopithecoidea (ca. 25 m.y.B.P.). Immunological distances combined with these divergence times indicate that primate albumin, widely used as a molecular clock in primatology, has evolved nonlinearly over geological time. A nonlinear albumin clock yields divergence times of about 9 million years before present for humans and chimpanzees, and about 13 million years before present for humans and orangutans (compared with 4 m.y.B.P. and 7 m.y.B.P., respectively, based on a linear albumin clock). Apparent slowing of albumin evolution over time remains to be fully explained. Other proteins and nucleic acids may provide better clocks. Cladistic analysis of morphological characteristics and comparative study of molecular structure, interpreted in the context of the fossil record, promise to contribute to a more complete understanding of primate evolution
Biology · Cladistics · Comparative biology · Divergence (linguistics) · Evolutionary biology · Lemur · Molecular clock · Morphology (biology) · Phyletic gradualism · Phylogenetics · Primate · Primatology · Taxon · Zoology · Amphibian and Reptile Biology · Bat Biology and Ecology Studies · Ecology · Genetics · Paleontology · Primate Behavior and Ecology
Evolution, Ecology and Conservation of Lorises and Pottos
Rencunius zhoui, New Primate from the Late Middle Eocene of Henan, China, and a Comparison with Some Early Anthropoidea
Anatomy, Antinomies, and the Problem of Anthropoid Origins
Early North African Primates and Their Significance for the Origin of Simiiformes (= Anthropoidea)
The Craniofacial Evidence for Anthropoid and Tarsier Relationships
Literaturverzeichnis
The Different Meanings of a Tarsioid — Anthropoid Clade and a New Model of Anthropoid Origin
Primitive Platyrrhines?
Sequences from the 5? flanking region of the ?-globin gene support the relationship ofCallicebuswith the pitheciins
Research, Trade and Conservation
Man, Culture, and Environment
Is There a Constant Rate of Molecular Substitution
Timing primate evolution
Update on the Phylogenetic Systematics of New World Monkeys
Phylogeny and Evolution of Selected Primates as Determined by Sequences of the ε-Globin Locus and 5′ Flanking Regions
Underestimating intraspecific variation
Diagnosis and differentiation of the order primates
Cranial morphology of Aegyptopithecus and Tarsius and the question of the tarsier‐anthropoidean clade
Hominid‐pongid distinctiveness in the miocene‐pliocene fossil record
Primate phylogeny, evolutionary rate variations, and divergence times
Mammalian order Proprimates—response to Beard
The body weight of AL 288‐1 (‘Lucy)
Locomotor and phylogenetic considerations in anthropoid evolution
Molecular phylogeny of three platyrrhine primates, capuchin monkey, spider monkey and owl monkey, as inferred from nucleotide sequences of the ψη-globin gene
Anthropoid origins
Do we need the newly proposed order Proprimates
| Unique citing works | 26 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,63 |
| Citation span | 1985 - 2020 (36) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 26 |