Peter F. Macneilage
- Published in print:
- 1998
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780198524113
- eISBN:
- 9780191689116
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198524113.003.0010
- Subject:
- Psychology, Neuropsychology
This chapter can be regarded as a sequel to George Ettlinger's 1984 paper, ‘Humans, apes and monkeys: the changing neuropsychological viewpoint’. He noted that in 1963 ‘there was no evidence for ...
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This chapter can be regarded as a sequel to George Ettlinger's 1984 paper, ‘Humans, apes and monkeys: the changing neuropsychological viewpoint’. He noted that in 1963 ‘there was no evidence for cerebral functional asymmetry in any nonhuman animal’. He then reviewed a number of findings of functional asymmetries in other primates, reported in the following twenty years and concluded that while ‘it might be prudent not to assert that cerebral hemispheric specialization is homologous in man and in monkey…the likelihood of such an eventual outcome has increased enormously’. This chapter contends that there is not only homology across vertebrate taxa for a number of individual specializations, but there is probably some evolutionary continuity in relationships between specializations.Less
This chapter can be regarded as a sequel to George Ettlinger's 1984 paper, ‘Humans, apes and monkeys: the changing neuropsychological viewpoint’. He noted that in 1963 ‘there was no evidence for cerebral functional asymmetry in any nonhuman animal’. He then reviewed a number of findings of functional asymmetries in other primates, reported in the following twenty years and concluded that while ‘it might be prudent not to assert that cerebral hemispheric specialization is homologous in man and in monkey…the likelihood of such an eventual outcome has increased enormously’. This chapter contends that there is not only homology across vertebrate taxa for a number of individual specializations, but there is probably some evolutionary continuity in relationships between specializations.
W. Henry Gilbert
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520251205
- eISBN:
- 9780520933774
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520251205.003.0017
- Subject:
- Biology, Evolutionary Biology / Genetics
Geographic distributions of fossilized and recent taxa can be used to illuminate prehistoric connections between geographic regions. This chapter discusses the geographic distribution and ecological ...
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Geographic distributions of fossilized and recent taxa can be used to illuminate prehistoric connections between geographic regions. This chapter discusses the geographic distribution and ecological niche of the Daka Member vertebrate taxa. Some Daka taxa are restricted to, but widespread within, sub-Saharan Africa during the Pliocene and Pleistocene: Aepyceros, Megalotragus, Numidocapra, Antidorcas, Syncerus, and Colobinae. Bouria and Nitidarcus are known only from the Daka Member and are endemic exclusively to the Daka Member and eastern Africa.Less
Geographic distributions of fossilized and recent taxa can be used to illuminate prehistoric connections between geographic regions. This chapter discusses the geographic distribution and ecological niche of the Daka Member vertebrate taxa. Some Daka taxa are restricted to, but widespread within, sub-Saharan Africa during the Pliocene and Pleistocene: Aepyceros, Megalotragus, Numidocapra, Antidorcas, Syncerus, and Colobinae. Bouria and Nitidarcus are known only from the Daka Member and are endemic exclusively to the Daka Member and eastern Africa.
