General Editor's Preface -- Preface -- SECTION ONE: NEW PERSPECTIVES ON THE ORIGIN AND DEPLOYMENT OF CATARRHINE PRIMATES -- Haplorhine Phylogeny and the Status of the Anthropoidea -- The Beginnings of the Catarrhini -- Paleoecology and Zoogeography of the Old World Monkeys -- Discussion -- SECTION TWO: BIOMOLECULAR PERSPECTIVES ON PRIMATE EVOLUTION -- Molecular Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature -- The Study of Primate Chromosomes -- Discussion -- SECTION THREE: ANATOMICAL CORRELATES OF FEEDING BEHAVIOR IN MONKEYS, APES, AND MAN -- An Assessment of Masticatory Efficiency in a Series of Anthropoid Primates with Special Reference to the Colobinae and Cercopithecinae -- The Role of Cheek Pouches in Cercopithecine Monkey Adaptive Strategy -- Discussion -- SECTION FOUR: KNUCKLE-WALKING AND HOMINOID EVOLUTION -- Knuckle-Walking and Knuckle-Walkers: A Commentary on Some Recent Perspectives on Hominoid Evolution -- Knuckle-Walking and the Functional Anatomy of the Wrists in Living Apes -- Discussion -- SECTION FIVE: MECHANISMS AND EVOLUTION OF BIPEDALISM IN THE HOMINOIDEA -- Functions and Evolution of Hominid Hip and Thigh Musculature -- Electromyography of the Gluteus Maximus Muscle in Gorilla and the Evolution of Hominid Bipedalism -- Function of the Gluteals in Man -- Functional Adaptation to Posture in the Pelvis of Man and Other Primates -- Biomechanical Perspectives on the Lower Limb of Early Hominids -- Comparative Osteometry of the Foot of Man and Facultatively Bipedal Primates -- Discussion -- SECTION SIX: BRAIN EVOLUTION IN THE HOMINOIDEA AND THE EVOLUTION OF HUMAN LANGUAGE -- Brain Evolution in the Hominoidea -- Early Hominid Endocasts: Volumes, Morphology, and Significance for Hominid Evolution -- Maturation and Longevity in Relation to Cranial Capacity in Hominid Evolution -- Estimation of the Cranial Capacity of Fossil Hominids.

Correlations Between Major Cranial Diameters of Man and Pongidae -- A Comparison of the Neurocranium and the Splanchnocranium in Recent and Fossil Primates -- The Brain of Primitive Man -- On the Evolution of Language: A Unified View -- Discussion -- Biographical Notes -- Plates, i-xxviii -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects.