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Rooneyia, Postorbital Closure, and the Beginnings of the Age of Anthropoidea

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Mammalian Evolutionary Morphology

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In the Age of Anthropoidea, the higher primates came to dominate primate evolution — at least since the Oligocene and probably even before that. In his research on the origins of anthropoids during the 1970s, F.S. Szalay set the stage for the present paper in three ways: he established its overarching phylogenetic framework; he promoted a methodology that emphasized the integration of phylogenetics and adaptational analysis in the reconstruction of evolutionary history; and, thankfully for us, he made a key morphological observation that produced the line of inquiry that this paper has followed up.

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  1. Department of Anthropology and Archaeology, Brooklyn College, CUNY, 2900 Bedford Ave, Brooklyn, NY, 11210, USA

    Alfred L. Rosenberger & Sai Man Wong

  2. Department of Anthropology, The Graduate Center, CUNY New York Consortium in Evolutionary Primatology (NYCEP) American Museum of Natural History/Mammalogy, USA

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  3. Department of Anthropology, The Graduate Center, CUNY, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, 10016, USA

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  4. New York Consortium in Evolutionary Primatology (NYCEP) Hard Tissue Research Unit, New York University, USA

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Rosenberger, A.L., Hogg, R., Wong, S.M. (2008). Rooneyia, Postorbital Closure, and the Beginnings of the Age of Anthropoidea. In: Sargis, E.J., Dagosto, M. (eds) Mammalian Evolutionary Morphology. Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology Series. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6997-0_14

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