Platyrrhines, PAUP, parallelism, and the Long Lineage Hypothesis: A reply to Kay et al. (2008)

Journal of Human Evolution

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 214-217

  Rosenberger, Alfred L ^a,b,c,d  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c New York Consortium in Evolutionary Primatology NYCEP   (United States)

^d DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cladistics; Fossils; New World monkeys; Primates; Systematics

Indexed keywords

ANCESTRY; CLADISTICS; FOSSIL RECORD; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; PARALLEL EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENETICS; PRIMATE; TAXONOMY;

PLATYRRHINI; PRIMATES;

EID: 77955849727     PISSN: 00472484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2010.03.003     Document Type: Article

References (34)

1. Collard M.C., Wood B. How reliable are human phylogenetic hypotheses?. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 2000, 97:5003-5006.
2. Delson E., Rosenberger A.L. Are there any anthropoid primate " living fossils" ?. Casebook on Living Fossils 1984, 50-61. Springer-Verlag, New York. N. Eldredge, S. Stanley (Eds.).
3. Fleagle J.G., Rosenberger A.L. Cranial morphology of the earliest anthropoids. Morphologie, Evolutive, Morphogenese du Crane et Anthropogenese 1983, 141-153. Centre National de la Recerche Scientifique, Paris. M. Sakka (Ed.).
4. Flynn J.J., Wyss A.R., Charrier R., Swisher C.C. An early Miocene anthropoid skull from the Chilean Andes. Nature 1995, 373:603-607.
5. Ford S.M. Systematics of the New World monkeys. Systematics, Evolution and Anatomy 1986, vol. 1:73-135. Alan Liss, New York. D. Swindler (Ed.).
6. Hartwig W.C. The Primate Fossil Record 2002, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
7. Hodgson J.A., Sterner K.N., Matthews L.J., Burrell A., Jani R.A., Raaum R.L., Stewart C.-B., Distotell T.R. Successive radiations, not stasis, in the South American primate fauna. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 2009, 106:5534-5539.
8. Horovitz I. A phylogenetic study of living and fossil platyrrhines. Am. Mus. Novit. 1999, 3269:1-40.
9. Kay R.F. The phyletic relationships of extant and fossil Pitheciinae (Platyrrhini, Anthropoidea). J. Hum. Evol. 1990, 19:175-208.
10. Kay R.F. " Giant" tamarin from the Miocene of Colombia. Am. J. Phys. Anthropol. 1994, 95:333-353.
11. Kay R.F., Campbell V., Rossie J.B., Colbert M.W., Rowe T.B. Olfactory fossa of Tremacebus harringtoni (Platyrrhini, early Miocene, Sacanana, Argentina): implications for activity pattern. Anat. Rec. 2004, 281A:1157-1172.
12. Kay R.F., Fleagle J.G., Mitchell T.R.T., Colbert M., Bown T., Powers D.W. The anatomy of Dolichocebus gaimaneensis, a stem platyrrhine monkey from Argentina. J. Hum. Evol. 2008, 54(3):323-382.
13. Kay R.F., Johnson D., Meldrum D.J. A new pitheciin primate from the middle Miocene of Argentina. Am. J. Primatol. 1998, 45:317-336.
14. Kay R.F., Vizcaino S.F., Tauber A.A., Bargo M.S., Williams B.A., Luna C., Colbert M.W. Three newly discovered skulls of Homunculus patagonicus support its position as a stem platyrrhine and establish its diurnal arboreal folivorous habits. Am. J. Phys. Anthropol. 2005, 40(Suppl.):127.
15. MacPhee R.D.E., Horovitz I. Extinct Quaternary platyrrhines of the Greater Antilles and Brazil. The Primate Fossil Record 2002, 189-200. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. W.C. Hartwig (Ed.).
16. Matthews L.J., Rosenberger A.L. Taxonomic status of the Yellow tailed Woolly Monkey, Lagothrix flavicauda - an object lesson in the implementation of PAUP. Am. J. Phys. Anthropol. 2008, 137:245-255.
17. Opazo J.C., Wildman D.E., Prychitko T., Johnson R.M., Goodman M. Phylogenetic relationships and divergence times among New World monkeys (Platyrrhini, Primates). Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 2006, 40(1):274-280.
18. Rosenberger A.L. Cranial anatomy and implications of Dolichocebus, a late Oligocene ceboid primate. Nature 1979, 279(5712):416-418.
19. Rosenberger A.L. Tail of tails: parallelism and prehensility. Am. J. Phys. Anthropol. 1983, 60:103-107.
20. Rosenberger A.L. Evolution of feeding niches in New World monkeys. Am. J. Phys. Anthropol. 1992, 88(4):525-562.
21. Rosenberger A.L. Platyrrhine paleontology and systematics: the paradigm shifts. The Primate Fossil Record 2002, 151-160. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. W.C. Hartwig (Ed.).
22. Rosenberger A.L., Setoguchi T., Shigehara N. The fossil record of callitrichine primates. J. Hum. Evol. 1990, 19:209-236.
23. Rosenberger A.L., Tejedor M.F., Cooke S., Pekar S. Platyrrhine ecophylogenetics, past and present. South American Primates: Comparative Perspectives in the Study of Behavior, Ecology and Conservation 2009, 69-113. Springer, New York. P. Garber, A. Estrada, J.C. Bicca-Marques, E.W. Heymann, K.B. Strier (Eds.).
24. Sargis E.J. The postcranial morphology of Ptilocercus lowii (Scandentia, Tupaiidae) and its implications for primate supraordinal relationships. Primate Origins: Adaptation and Evolution 2007, 51-82. Springer, New York. M.J. Ravosa, M. Dagosto (Eds.).
25. Schneider H., Rosenberger A.L. Molecules, morphology and platyrrhine systematics. Adaptive Radiations of Neotropical Primates 1997, 3-19. Plenum Press, New York. M.A. Norconk, A.L. Rosenberger, P.A. Garber (Eds.).
26. Schneider H., Canavez F.C., Sampaio I., Moreira M.A.M., Tagliaro C.H., Seuanez H.N. Can molecular data place each Neotropical monkey in its own branch?. Chromosoma 2001, 109:515-523.
27. Schrago C.G. On the time scale of new world primate diversification. Am. J. Phys. Anthropol. 2007, 132(3):344-354.
28. Setoguchi T., Rosenberger A.L. A fossil owl monkey from La Venta, Colombia. Nature 1987, 326:692-694.
29. Silcox M.T. Primate taxonomy, plesiadapiforms, and approaches to primate origins. Primate Origins: Adaptation and Evolution 2007, 143-178. Springer, New York. M.J. Ravosa, M. Dagosto (Eds.).
30. Takai M., Anaya F., Suzuki H., Shigehara N., Setoguchi T. A new platyrrhine from the Middle Miocene of La Venta, Colombia, and the phyletic position of Callicebinae. Anthropological Sci.: J. Anthropol. Soc. Nippon 2001, 109(4):289-307.
31. Tauber A.A. Homunculus patagonicus Ameghino 1891 (Primates, Ceboidea), Mioceno temprano de la costa atlántica austral, Provincia de Santa Cruz, República Argentina. Acad. Nac. de Cienc. 1991, 82:1-32.
32. Tejedor M.F., Rosenberger A.L. A neotype for Homunculus patagonicus Ameghino, 1891, and a New Interpretation of the Taxon. PaleoAnthropology 2008, 2008:68-82.
33. Tejedor M.F., Tauber A.A., Rosenberger A.L., Swisher C.C., Palacios M.E. New primate genus from the Miocene of Argentina. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 2006, 103(14):5437-5441.
34. Young N.M. Estimating hominoid phylogeny from morphological data: character choice, phylogenetic signal and postcranial data. Interpreting the Past: Essays on Human, Primate and Mammal Evolution in Honor of David Pilbeam 2005, 19-31. Brill Academic Publishers, Inc., Boston. D.E. Lieberman, R.J. Smith, J. Kelley (Eds.).