The primate subarcuate fossa and its relationship to the semicircular canals part II: Adult interspecific variation

Journal of Human Evolution

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 326-339

  Jeffery, Nathan ^a   Ryan, Timothy M ^b   Spoor, Fred ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Petrosal lobule; Semicircular canals; Subarcuate fossa

Indexed keywords

BODY MASS; INTERSPECIFIC VARIATION; LOCOMOTION; PHYLOGENETICS; PRIMATE;

PRIMATES;

EID: 48349094405     PISSN: 00472484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2008.02.010     Document Type: Article

References (56)

1. Alemseged Z., Spoor F., Kimbel W.H., Bobe R., Geraads D., Reed D., and Wynn J.G. A juvenile early hominin skeleton from Dikika, Ethiopia. Nature 443 (2006) 296-301
2. Blomberg S.P., Garland Jr. T., and Ives A.R. Testing for phylogenetic signal in comparative data: behavioral traits are more labile. Evolution 57 (2003) 717-745
3. Bolk L. Das Cerebellum der Säugetiere (1906), F. Bohn, Haarlem
4. Bramble D.M., and Lieberman D.E. Endurance running and the evolution of Homo. Nature 432 (2004) 345-352
5. Chaves R., Sampaio I., Schneider M.P., Schneider H., Page S.L., and Goodman M. The place of Callimico goeldii in the callitrichine phylogenetic tree: evidence from von Willebrand factor gene intron II sequences. Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 13 (1999) 392-404
6. Delson E. Evolutionary history of the colobine monkeys in paleoenvironmental perspective. In: Davies G., and Oates J.F. (Eds). Colobine Monkeys: Their Ecology, Behaviour and Evolution (1994), Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 11-43
7. Didier G. Contribution a l'Etude Anatomique de la Fossa Subarcuate (1920), University of Paris, Paris
8. Eizirik E., Murphy W.J., Springer M.S., and O'Brien S.J. Molecular phylogeny and dating of early primate divergences. In: Ross C.F., and Kay R.F. (Eds). Anthropoid Origins: New Visions (2004), Kluwer Academic, New York 45-61
9. Fleagle J.G. Primate Adaptation and Evolution. second ed. (1998), Academic Press, New York
10. Freckleton R.P., Harvey P.H., and Pagel M. Phylogenetic analysis and comparative data: a test and review of evidence. Am. Nat. 160 (2002) 712-726
11. Gannon P.J., Eden A.R., and Laitman J.T. The subarcuate fossa and cerebellum of extant primates: comparative study of a skull-brain interface. Am. J. Phys. Anthropol. 77 (1988) 143-164
12. Garland Jr. T., Midford P.E., and Ives A.R. An introduction to phylogenetically based statistical methods, with a new method for confidence intervals on ancestral values. Am. Zool. 39 (1999) 374-388
13. Garland Jr. T., and Ives A.R. Using the past to predict the present: confidence intervals for regression equations in phylogenetic comparative methods. Am. Nat. 155 (2000) 346-364
14. Garland Jr. T., Bennett A.F., and Rezende E.L. Phylogenetic approaches in comparative physiology. J. Exp. Biol. 208 (2005) 3015-3035
15. Girard L., and Didier G. La fossa subarcuata. Bull. Mem. Soc. Anthropol. Paris 7 (1921) 44-58
16. Glickstein M., Gerrits N., Kralj-Hans I., Mercier B., Stein J., and Voogd J. Visual pontocerebellar projections in the macaque. J. Comp. Neurol. 349 (1994) 51-72
17. Goodman M., Porter C.A., Czelusniak J., Page S.L., Schneider H., Shoshani J., Gunnell G., and Groves C.P. Toward a phylogenetic classification of primates based on DNA evidence complemented by fossil evidence. Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 9 (1998) 585-598
18. Grafen A. The phylogenetic regression. Philos. Trans. R. Soc. London 326B (1989) 119-157
19. Hromada J. Comparative and topographical investigation of the fossa subarcuata and its content in man, Macaca monkeys and some laboratory animals. Part I. Fossa subarcuata. Folia Morphol. 13 (1965) 275-284
20. Hromada J. Comparative and topographical investigation of the fossa subarcuata and its contents in man, Macaca monkeys and some laboratory animals. Part II. Content of fossa subarcuata. Folia Morphol. 13 (1965) 285-293
21. Jansen J. On the morphogenesis and morphology of the mammalian cerebellum. In: Jansen J., and Brodal A. (Eds). Aspects of Cerebellar Anatomy (1954), Johan Grundt Tanum, Oslo 13-81
22. Jeffery N., and Spoor F. The primate subarcuate fossa and its relationship to the semicircular canals part I: prenatal growth. J. Hum. Evol. 51 (2006) 537-549
23. Karanth K.P., Delefosse T., Rakotosamimanana B., Parsons T.J., and Yoder A.D. Ancient DNA from giant extinct lemurs confirms single origin of Malagasy primates. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 102 (2005) 5090-5095
24. Larsell O. The development of the cerebellum in man in relation to its comparative anatomy. J. Comp. Neurol. 87 (1947) 85-129
25. Larsell O. The accessory paraflocculus and petrosal lobule in primates. Anat. Rec. 145 (1963) 252
26. Larsell O. The Comparative Anatomy and Histology of the Cerebellum from Monotremes through Apes (1970), University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis
27. Leung H.C., Suh M., and Kettner R.E. Cerebellar flocculus and paraflocculus Purkinje cell activity during circular pursuit in monkey. J. Neurophysiol. 83 (2000) 13-30
28. McClure T.D., and Daron G.H. The relationship of the developing inner ear, subarcuate fossa and paraflocculus in the rat. Am. J. Anat. 130 (1971) 235-249
29. Pagel M.D. A method for the analysis of comparative data. J. Theor. Biol. 156 (1992) 431-442
30. Pagel M. Inferring the historical patterns of biological evolution. Nature 401 (1999) 877-884
31. Porter C.A., Page S.L., Czelusniak J., Schneider H., Schneider M.P.C., Sampaio I., and Goodman M. Phylogeny and evolution of selected primates as determined by sequences of the epsilon-globin locus and 5′ flanking regions. Int. J. Primatol. 18 (1997) 261-295
32. Raaum R.L., Sterner K.N., Noviello C.M., Stewart C.B., and Disotell T.R. Catarrhine primate divergence dates estimated from complete mitochondrial genomes: concordance with fossil and nuclear DNA evidence. J. Hum. Evol. 48 (2005) 237-257
33. Rohlf F.J. Comparative methods for the analysis of continuous variables: geometric interpretations. Evolution 55 (2001) 2143-2160
34. Roos C., and Geissmann T. Molecular phylogeny of the major hylobatid divisions. Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 19 (2001) 486-494
35. Roos C., Schmitz J., and Zischler H. Primate jumping genes elucidate strepsirrhine phylogeny. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 101 (2004) 10650-10654
36. Ross C.F., Henneberg M., Ravosa M.J., and Richard S. Curvilinear, geometric and phylogenetic modeling of basicranial flexion: is it adaptive, is it constrained?. J. Hum. Evol. 46 (2004) 185-213
37. Rowe N. The Pictorial Guide to the Living Primates (1996), Pogonias Press, New York
38. Smith R.J., and Cheverud J.M. Scaling of sexual dimorphism in body mass: a phylogenetic analysis of Rensch's rule in primates. Int. J. Primatol. 23 (2002) 1095-1135
39. Smith R.J., and Jungers W.L. Body mass in comparative primatology. J. Hum. Evol. 32 (1997) 523-559
40. Spoor, F., 1993. The Comparative Morphology and Phylogeny of the Human Bony Labyrinth. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Utrecht.
41. Spoor F. The semicircular canal system and locomotor behaviour, with special reference to hominin evolution. Cour. Forsch.-Inst. Senckenberg 243 (2003) 93-104
42. Spoor F., and Leakey M. Absence of the subarcuate fossa in cercopithecids. J. Hum. Evol. 31 (1996) 569-575
43. Spoor F., Wood B., and Zonneveld F. Evidence for a link between human semicircular canal size and bipedal behaviour. J. Hum. Evol. 30 (1996) 183-187
44. Spoor F., and Zonneveld F. Comparative review of the human bony labyrinth. Yearb. Phys. Anthropol. 27 (1998) 211-251
45. Spoor F., Garland T., Krovitz G., Ryan T., Silcox M., and Walker A. The primate semicircular canal system and locomotion. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 104 (2007) 10808-10812
46. Springer M.S., Murphy W.J., Eizirik E., and O'Brien S.J. Placental mammal diversification and the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 100 (2003) 1056-1061
47. Stauffer R.L., Walker A., Ryder O.A., Lyons-Weiler M., and Hedges S.B. Human and ape molecular clocks and constraints on paleontological hypotheses. J. Hered. 92 (2001) 469-474
48. Stewart C.B., and Disotell T.R. Primate evolution-in and out of Africa. Curr. Biol. 8 (1998) R582-R588
49. Strauss W.L. The subarcuate fossa in primates. Anat. Rec. 138 (1960) 93-103
50. Tagliavini F., and Pietrini V. On the variability of the human flocculus and paraflocculus accessorius. J. Hirnforsch. 25 (1984) 163-170
51. Tosi A.J., Disotell T.R., Morales J.C., and Melnick D.J. Cercopithecine Y-chromosome data provide a test of competing morphological evolutionary hypotheses. Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 27 (2003) 510-521
52. Walker A., Silcox M.T., Bloch J.I., Spoor F., and Krovitz G. The semicircular canals of plesiadapiform primates and their functional significance. J. Vert. Paleontol. 23 (2003) 107A
53. Xiong G., and Nagao S. The lobulus petrosus of the paraflocculus relays cortical visual inputs to the posterior interposed and lateral cerebellar nuclei: an anterograde and retrograde tracing study in the monkey. Exp. Brain Res. 147 (2002) 252-263
54. Yoder A.D. Back to the future: a synthesis of strepsirrhine systematics. Evol. Anthropol. 6 (1997) 11-22
55. Yoder A.D., and Yang Z.H. Estimation of primate speciation dates using local molecular clocks. Mol. Biol. Evol. 17 (2000) 1081-1090
56. Yoder A.D., and Yang Z.H. Divergence dates for Malagasy lemurs estimated from multiple gene loci: geological and evolutionary context. Mol. Ecol. 13 (2004) 757-773