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The first phase of this research was conducted from 1993 to 1998 and was supported by grants to NGJ from the Australian Research Council. Jablonski thanks her original project research assistants, Nola Roberts-Smith, Matt Whitfort, Paul Ottaviano, and Jane Bailey for creating the first version of the Eurasian Fossil Mammal Database and conducting GIS analyses. Logistical support from Derek Milton of ESRI (Australia) and from donations of GIS software through ESRI’s Environmental Conservation Program headed by Charles Convis is gratefully acknowledged. Financial support from the In-house Research Fund of the California Academy of Sciences is also gratefully acknowledged. Discussions with Warren Brockelman between 1997 and 2003 greatly enriched our understanding of gibbon ecology and evolution. We thank Susan Lappan and Danielle Whittaker for asking us to contribute to the volume.

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    Jablonski, N.G., Chaplin, G. (2009). The Fossil Record of Gibbons. In: Whittaker, D., Lappan, S. (eds) The Gibbons. Developments in Primatology: Progress and Prospects. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-88604-6_7

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