Publisher's Synopsis
This edited volume provides an overview of a re-emerging focus on the importance of ontogenic data for addressing issues regarding skeletal form and function, phylogenetic reconstruction, sexual dimorphism, phyletic size change and behavioural development in primates.;The study of ontogeny offers a dynamic perspective to the study of evolutionary biology which often compliments and extends the utility of research based solely on adult data. The increasing number of investigations on heterochrony in primates, for instance, places renewed emphasis on the analysis of evolutionary change as a modification of development. Therefore, in order to gain a fuller understanding of evolutionary patterns across taxa, it is essential to address the developmental or ontogenic processes underlying such changes. Clearly, there is much information to glean from studies in ontogeny.
