Research on the Origin and Early Evolution of Primates

Introduction

Publications on Primates (chronological order)

Gingerich, P. D. 1971. Functional significance of mandibular translation in vertebrate jaw mechanics. Postilla, Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University, 152: 1-10. PDF or Request PDF/reprint 2

Gingerich, P. D. 1971. Cranium of Plesiadapis. Nature, 232: 566. Online or Request PDF/reprint 3

Gingerich, P. D. 1972. The development of sexual dimorphism in the bony pelvis of the squirrel monkey. Anatomical Record, 172: 589-596. Online or Request PDF/reprint 004

Gingerich, P. D. 1972. Molar occlusion and jaw mechanics of the Eocene primate Adapis. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 36: 359-368. Online or Request PDF/reprint 5

Bown, T. M. and P. D. Gingerich. 1972. Dentition of the early Eocene primates Niptomomys and Absarokius. Postilla, Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University, 158: 1-10. PDF or Request PDF/reprint 6

Bown, T. M. and P. D. Gingerich. 1973. The Paleocene primate Plesiolestes and the origin of Microsyopidae. Folia Primatologica, 19: 1-8. PDF or Request PDF/reprint 9

Gingerich, P. D. 1973. First record of the Paleocene primate Chiromyoides in North America. Nature, 244: 517-518. Online or Request PDF/reprint 10

Gingerich, P. D. 1973. Anatomy of the temporal bone in the Oligocene anthropoid Apidium and the origin of Anthropoidea. Folia Primatologica, 19: 329-337. PDF or Request PDF/reprint 12

Gingerich, P. D. 1974. Function of pointed premolars in Phenacolemur and other mammals. Journal of Dental Research, 53: 497. PDF or Request PDF/reprint 14

Gingerich, P. D. 1974. Dental function in the Paleocene primate Plesiadapis. In R. D. Martin, G. A. Doyle, and A. C. Walker (eds.), Prosimian Biology, Duckworth Ltd., London, pp. 531-541. PDF or Request PDF/reprint 20

Gingerich, P. D. 1975. Systematic position of Plesiadapis. Nature, 253: 111-113. Online or Request PDF/reprint 21

Gingerich, P. D. 1975. New North American Plesiadapidae (Mammalia, Primates) and a biostratigraphic zonation of the middle and upper Paleocene. Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan, 24: 135-148. PDF (Deep Blue) or Request PDF/reprint 24

Gingerich, P. D. 1975. Dentition of Adapis parisiensis and the origin of lemuriform primates. In I. Tattersall and R. W. Sussman (eds.), Lemur Biology, Plenum Publ. Corp., New York, pp. 65-80. PDF or Request PDF/reprint 26

Gingerich, P. D. 1975. A new genus of Adapidae (Mammalia, Primates) from the late Eocene of southern France, and its significance for the origin of higher primates. Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan, 24: 163-170. PDF (Deep Blue) or Request PDF/reprint 27

Gingerich, P. D. 1976. Systematic position of the alleged primate Lantianius xiehuensis Chow 1964 from the Eocene of China. Journal of Mammalogy, 57: 194-198. Online or Request PDF/reprint 30

Gingerich, P. D. 1976. Cranial anatomy and evolution of early Tertiary Plesiadapidae (Mammalia, Primates). University of Michigan Papers on Paleontology, 15: 1-140. PDF (Deep Blue) or Request PDF/reprint 32

Gingerich, P. D. and K. D. Rose. 1976. Partial skull of the plesiadapiform primate Ignacius from the early Eocene of Wyoming. Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan, 24: 181-189. PDF (Deep Blue) or Request PDF/reprint 33

Gingerich, P. D. 1977. New species of Eocene primates and the phylogeny of European Adapidae. Folia Primatologica, 28: 60-80. PDF or Request PDF/reprint 39

Gingerich, P. D. 1977. Dental variation in early Eocene Teilhardina belgica with notes on the anterior dentition of some early Tarsiiformes. Folia Primatologica, 28: 144-153. PDF or Request PDF/reprint 40

Gingerich, P. D. and E. L. Simons. 1977. Systematics, phylogeny, and evolution of early Eocene Adapidae (Mammalia, Primates) in North America. Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan, 24: 245-279. PDF (Deep Blue) or Request PDF/reprint 42

Gingerich, P. D. and M. J. Schoeninger. 1977. The fossil record and primate phylogeny. Journal of Human Evolution, 6: 482-505. Online or Request PDF/reprint 44

Gingerich, P. D. 1977. Homologies of the anterior teeth in Indriidae and a functional basis for dental reduction in primates. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 47: 387-394. PDF (Deep Blue) or Request PDF/reprint 46

Gingerich, P. D. 1977. Correlation of tooth size and body size in living hominoid primates, with a note on relative brain size in Aegyptopithecus and Proconsul. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 47: 395-398. PDF (Deep Blue) or Request PDF/reprint 47

Gingerich, P. D. 1977. Radiation of Eocene Adapidae in Europe. In J.-L. Hartenberger (ed.), Faunes de Mammifères du Paléogène d'Eurasie, Geobios, Lyon, Mémoire Spécial, 1: 165-182. PDF or Request PDF/reprint 51

Cartmill, M. and P. D. Gingerich. 1978. An ethmoid exposure (os planum) in the orbit of Indri indri (Primates, Lemuriformes). American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 48: 535-538. Online or Request PDF/reprint 53

Gingerich, P. D. 1978. Phylogeny reconstruction and the phylogenetic position of Tarsius. In D. J. Chivers and K. A. Joysey (eds.), Recent Advances in Primatology, Academic Press, New York, 3: pp. 249-256. PDF or Request PDF/reprint 57

Gingerich, P. D. 1978. The Stuttgart collection of Oligocene primates from the Fayum Province of Egypt. Paläontologische Zeitschrift, Stuttgart, 52: 82-92. PDF or Request PDF/reprint 58

Gingerich, P. D. and A. S. Ryan. 1979. Dental and cranial variation in living Indriidae. Primates, 20: 141-159. PDF (Deep Blue) or Request PDF/reprint 63

Gingerich, P. D. 1979. Phylogeny of middle Eocene Adapidae (Mammalia, Primates) in North America: Smilodectes and Notharctus. Journal of Paleontology, 53: 153-163. Online or Request PDF/reprint 64

Gingerich, P. D. 1979. The human mandible: lever, link, or both? American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 51: 135-138. PDF (Deep Blue) or Request PDF/reprint 68

Gingerich, P. D. and A. Sahni. 1979. Indraloris and Sivaladapis: Miocene adapid primates from the Siwaliks of India and Pakistan. Nature, 279: 415-416. Online or Request PDF/reprint 69

Gingerich, P. D. and J. A. Dorr. 1979. Mandible of Chiromyoides minor (Mammalia, Primates) from the upper Paleocene Chappo member of the Wasatch Formation, Wyoming. Journal of Paleontology, 53: 550-552. Online or Request PDF/reprint 71

Gingerich, P. D. 1979. Homologies of the anterior teeth in Indriidae. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 51: 283-286. PDF (Deep Blue) or Request PDF/reprint 76

Gingerich, P. D. and M. J. Schoeninger. 1979. Patterns of tooth size variability in the dentition of primates. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 51: 457-466. PDF (Deep Blue) or Request PDF/reprint 78

Jungers, W. L. and P. D. Gingerich. 1980. Supernumerary molars in Anthropoidea, Adapidae and Archaeolemur: implications for primate dental homologies. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 52: 1-5. Online or Request PDF/reprint 83

Gingerich, P. D. 1980. Dental and cranial adaptations in Eocene Adapidae. Zeitschrift für Morphologie und Anthropologie, Stuttgart, 71: 135-142. PDF or Request PDF/reprint 95

Russell, D. E. and P. D. Gingerich. 1980. Un nouveau Primate omomyide dans l'Eocène du Pakistan. Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences, Paris, Série D, 291: 621-624. PDF or Request PDF/reprint 98

Gingerich, P. D. 1981. Eocene Adapidae, paleobiogeography, and the origin of South American Platyrrhini. In R. L. Ciochon and A. B. Chiarelli (eds.), Evolutionary Biology of the New World Monkeys and Continental Drift, Plenum Publ., New York, pp. 123-138. PDF or Request PDF/reprint 99

Gingerich, P. D. 1981. Early Cenozoic Omomyidae and the evolutionary history of tarsiiform primates. Journal of Human Evolution, 10: 345-374. Online or Request PDF/reprint 102

Gunnell, G. F. and P. D. Gingerich. 1981. A new species of Niptomomys (Microsyopidae) from the early Eocene of Wyoming. Folia Primatologica, 36: 128-137. PDF or Request PDF/reprint 106

Gingerich, P. D. 1981. Cranial morphology and adaptations in Eocene Adapidae: I. Sexual dimorphism in Adapis magnus and Adapis parisiensis. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 56: 217-234. PDF (Deep Blue) or Request PDF/reprint 107

Gingerich, P. D. and R. D. Martin. 1981. Cranial morphology and adaptations in Eocene Adapidae II. The Cambridge skull of Adapis parisiensis. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 56: 235-257. PDF (Deep Blue) or Request PDF/reprint 108

Gingerich, P. D. and R. A. Haskin. 1981. Dentition of early Eocene Pelycodus jarrovii (Mammalia, Primates) and the generic attribution of species formerly referred to Pelycodus. Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan, 25: 327-337. PDF (Deep Blue) or Request PDF/reprint 112

Gingerich, P. D., B. H. Smith, and K. R. Rosenberg. 1982. Allometric scaling in the dentition of primates and prediction of body weight from tooth size in fossils. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 58: 81-100. PDF (Deep Blue) or Request PDF/reprint 118

MacPhee, R. D. E., M. Cartmill, and P. D. Gingerich. 1983. New Palaeogene primate basicrania and the definition of the order Primates. Nature, 301: 509-511. Online or Request PDF/reprint 130

Gingerich, P. D. and A. Sahni. 1984. Dentition of Sivaladapis nagrii (Adapidae) from the late Miocene of India. International Journal of Primatology, 5: 63-79. PDF or Request PDF/reprint 146

Gingerich, P. D. 1984. Paleobiology of tarsiiform primates. In C. Niemitz (ed.), Biology of Tarsiers, Gustav Fischer, Stuttgart, pp. 33-44. PDF or Request PDF/reprint 147

Gingerich, P. D. 1984. Primate evolution. In P. D. Gingerich and C. E. Badgley (eds.), Mammals: Notes for a Short Course, Paleontological Society (University of Tennessee Studies in Geology), 8: pp. 167-181. PDF or Request PDF/reprint 154

Gingerich, P. D. and B. H. Smith. 1984. Allometric scaling in the dentition of primates and insectivores. In W. L. Jungers (ed.), Size and Scaling in Primate Biology, Plenum, New York, pp. 257-272. PDF or Request PDF/reprint 157

Gingerich, P. D. 1984. Primate evolution: evidence from the fossil record, comparative morphology, and molecular biology. Yearbook of Physical Anthropology, 27: 57-72. PDF (Deep Blue) or Request PDF/reprint 160

Gingerich, P. D. 1985. Nonlinear molecular clocks and ape-human divergence times. In P. V. Tobias (ed.), Hominid Evolution: Past, Present and Future, Alan R. Liss, Inc., New York, pp. 411-416. PDF or Request PDF/reprint 169

Gingerich, P. D. 1986. Early Eocene Cantius torresi: oldest primate of modern aspect from North America. Nature, 320: 319-321. Online or Request PDF/reprint 171

Gingerich, P. D. 1986. Plesiadapis and the delineation of the order Primates. In B. A. Wood, L. B. Martin, and P. J. Andrews (eds.), Major Topics in Primate and Human Evolution, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 32-46. PDF or Request PDF/reprint 172

Gingerich, P. D. 1986. Temporal scaling of molecular evolution in primates and other mammals. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 3: 205-221. Online or Request PDF/reprint 173

Russell, D. E. and P. D. Gingerich. 1987. Nouveaux primates de l'Eocène du Pakistan. Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences, Paris, Série II, 304: 209-214. PDF or Request PDF/reprint 178

Gingerich, P. D. 1990. African dawn for primates. Nature, 346: 411. PDF or Request PDF/reprint 216

Gingerich, P. D. 1990. Mammalian order Proprimates. Journal of Human Evolution, 19: 821-822. PDF (Deep Blue) or Request PDF/reprint 219

Gingerich, P. D. 1991. Systematic position of Pronothodectes gaoi Fox from the Paleocene of Alberta. Journal of Paleontology, 65: 699. Online or Request PDF/reprint 225

Gingerich, P. D., D. Dashzeveg, and D. E. Russell. 1991. Dentition and systematic relationships of Altanius orlovi (Mammalia, Primates) from the early Eocene of Mongolia. Geobios, Villeurbanne, 24: 637-646. PDF or Request PDF/reprint 234

Gingerich, P. D. 1992. Evolution of prosimians. In J. S. Jones, R. D. Martin, and D. R. Pilbeam (eds.), Cambridge Encyclopedia of Human Evolution, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, p. 201.

Gingerich, P. D. 1993. Oligocene age of the Gebel Qatrani Formation, Fayum, Egypt. Journal of Human Evolution, 24: 207-218. PDF (Deep Blue) or Request PDF/reprint 259

Gingerich, P. D. 1993. Early Eocene Teilhardina brandti: oldest omomyid primate from North America. Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan, 28: 321-326. PDF (Deep Blue) or Request PDF/reprint 262

Gingerich, P. D. and M. D. Uhen. 1994. Time of origin of primates. Journal of Human Evolution, 27: 443-445. PDF (Deep Blue) or Request PDF/reprint 279

Gingerich, P. D., P. A. Holroyd, and R. L. Ciochon. 1994. Rencunius zhoui, new primate from the late middle Eocene of Henan, China, and a comparison with some early Anthropoidea. In J. G. Fleagle and R. F. Kay (eds.), Anthropoid Origins, Plenum Press, New York, pp. 163-177. PDF or Request PDF/reprint 286

Gingerich, P. D. 1995. Sexual dimorphism in earliest Eocene Cantius torresi (Mammalia, Primates, Adapoidea). Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan, 29: 185-199. PDF (Deep Blue) or Request PDF/reprint 301

Simons, E. L., D. T. Rasmussen, and P. D. Gingerich. 1996. New cercamoniine adapid from Fayum, Egypt. Journal of Human Evolution, 29: 577-589. Online or Request PDF/reprint 305

Gingerich, P. D. 1996. Rates of evolution in divergent species lineages as a test of character displacement in the fossil record: tooth size in Paleocene Plesiadapis (Mammalia, Proprimates). In M. Godinot and P. D. Gingerich (eds.), Paléobiologie et Evolution des Mammifères Paléogènes: Volume Jubilaire en Hommage à Donald E. Russell, Palaeovertebrata, Montpellier, 25: pp. 193-204. PDF or Request PDF/reprint 316

Bloch, J. I. and P. D. Gingerich. 1998. Carpolestes simpsoni, new species (Mammalia, Proprimates) from the late Paleocene of the Clarks Fork Basin, Wyoming. Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan, 30: 131-162. PDF (Deep Blue) or Request PDF/reprint 345

Bloch, J. I., D. C. Fisher, K. D. Rose, and P. D. Gingerich. 2001. Stratocladistic analysis of Paleocene Carpolestidae (Mammalia, Plesiadapiformes) with description of a new late Tiffanian genus. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 21: 119-131. Online or Request PDF/reprint 365

Ciochon, R. L., P. D. Gingerich, G. F. Gunnell, and E. L. Simons. 2001. Primate postcrania from the late middle Eocene of Myanmar. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 98: 7672-7677. Online or Request PDF/reprint 374

Gunnell, G. F., R. L. Ciochon, P. D. Gingerich, and P. A. Holroyd. 2002. New assessment of Pondaungia and Amphipithecus (Primates) from the late middle Eocene of Myanmar, with a comment on 'Amphipithecidae'. Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan, 30: 337-372. PDF (Deep Blue) or Request PDF/reprint 386

Bloch, J. I., D. M. Boyer, P. D. Gingerich, and G. F. Gunnell. 2002. New primitive paromomyid from the Clarkforkian of Wyoming and dental eruption in Plesiadapiformes. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 22: 366-379. Online or Request PDF/reprint 390

Gingerich, P. D. and G. F. Gunnell. 2005. Brain of Plesiadapis cookei (Mammalia, Proprimates): surface morphology and encephalization compared to those of Primates and Dermoptera. Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan, 31 (8): 185-195. PDF (Deep Blue) or Request PDF/reprint 438

Smith, T., K. D. Rose, and P. D. Gingerich. 2006. Rapid Asia-Europe-North America dispersal of the earliest Eocene primate Teilhardina. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 103: 11223-11227. Online or Request PDF/reprint 448

 

Recent abstracts

Gunnell, G. F., M. Haq, P. D. Gingerich, J. I. Bloch, and W. C. Clyde. 2006. New primates (Mammalia) from Gandhera Quarry, early Eocene, Balochistan Province, Pakistan (abstract). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, Abstracts of Papers, 26 (Suppl. 3): 71. Abstract

 

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