New Models and Insights into Primate Evolutionary Morphology
1Department of Physical Therapy, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
2Department of Anatomy, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, NH, USA
3Department of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Saxony, Germany
New Models and Insights into Primate Evolutionary Morphology
Description
Evolutionary morphology encompasses the functional, adaptational, and phylogenetic characteristics of organisms and how they have evolved. This Special Issue asks questions about the processual and mechanistic events associated with gaining these characteristics and what the selective pressures shaping this evolution may have been. These questions may take the form of overt hypothesis testing or they may be more descriptive in nature. This particular issue focuses on humans, fossil humans, and our nonhuman primate relatives.
Researchers are invited to submit original research articles as well as review articles from areas related to evolutionary morphology including anatomy, evolutionary biology, biomechanics, biological anthropology, paleontology, evolutionary theory, and ecology. Topics to be considered for publication will include, but are not limited to:
- Fossil human morphology
- Australopithecines as well as the Homo lineage
- Evolution of the special senses in primates
- Includes studies on both extant and fossil species
- Encompasses olfaction, taste, vision, and hearing
- Comparative morphology of the postcranial skeleton in the hominoids
- With a focus on evolution of locomotion and postural behavior
- Contemporary human morphological studies
- Include studies done on human cadavers and would focus on anatomical structures that have previously been poorly described
- Comparative morphology of the masticatory system in living and fossil primates
- Include work done on the skull, musculature, and microanatomical morphology of the temporomandibular joint
- Dentition of living and fossil primates
- Comparative and evolutionary morphology of the limbs and vertebral column in living and fossil primates
Before submission authors should carefully read over the journal's Author Guidelines, which are located at http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ari/guidelines/. Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscript through the journal Manuscript Tracking System at http://mts.hindawi.com/ according to the following timetable: