Richard F Kay

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Affiliation: Duke University Medical Center
Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi The anatomy of Dolichocebus gaimanensis, a stem platyrrhine monkey from Argentina
    Richard F Kay
    Department of Biological Anthropology and Anatomy, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708 0383, USA
    J Hum Evol 54:323-82. 2008
  2. ncbi Olfactory fossa of Tremacebus harringtoni (platyrrhini, early Miocene, Sacanana, Argentina): implications for activity pattern
    Richard F Kay
    Department of Biological Anthropology and Anatomy, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27710, USA
    Anat Rec A Discov Mol Cell Evol Biol 281:1157-72. 2004
  3. ncbi Comment on "Grasping primate origins"
    E Christopher Kirk
    Department of Biological Anthropology, and AnatomyDuke University Medical CenterBox 3170Durham, North Carolina 27710, USA
    Science 300:741; author reply 741. 2003
  4. ncbi New platyrrhine monkeys from the Solimões Formation (late Miocene, Acre State, Brazil)
    Richard F Kay
    Department of Biological Anthropology and Anatomy, Duke University, Durham, NC 27710, USA
    J Hum Evol 50:673-86. 2006
  5. ncbi New perspectives on anthropoid origins
    Blythe A Williams
    Department of Evolutionary Anthropology, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708 0383, USA
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 107:4797-804. 2010
  6. ncbi Locomotor head movements and semicircular canal morphology in primates
    Michael D Malinzak
    Department of Evolutionary Anthropology, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 109:17914-9. 2012
  7. ncbi Dietary quality and encephalization in platyrrhine primates
    Kari L Allen
    Department of Evolutionary Anthropology, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA
    Proc Biol Sci 279:715-21. 2012
  8. ncbi The paleobiology of Amphipithecidae, South Asian late Eocene primates
    Richard F Kay
    Department of Biological Anthropology and Anatomy, Duke University Medical Center, Durham NC 27710, USA
    J Hum Evol 46:3-25. 2004
  9. ncbi Hypoglossal canal size in living hominoids and the evolution of human speech
    William L Jungers
    Department of Anatomical Sciences, School of Medicine, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794-8081, USA
    Hum Biol 75:473-84. 2003
  10. ncbi The oldest Asian record of Anthropoidea
    Sunil Bajpai
    Department of Earth Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee 247 667, India
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 105:11093-8. 2008

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Publications12

  1. ncbi The anatomy of Dolichocebus gaimanensis, a stem platyrrhine monkey from Argentina
    Richard F Kay
    Department of Biological Anthropology and Anatomy, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708 0383, USA
    J Hum Evol 54:323-82. 2008
    ..Homoplasy is a real evolutionary phenomenon that is present at all levels of biological analysis, from amino-acid sequences to aspects of adult bony morphology, behavior, and adaptation...
  2. ncbi Olfactory fossa of Tremacebus harringtoni (platyrrhini, early Miocene, Sacanana, Argentina): implications for activity pattern
    Richard F Kay
    Department of Biological Anthropology and Anatomy, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27710, USA
    Anat Rec A Discov Mol Cell Evol Biol 281:1157-72. 2004
    ..This finding accords well with previous observations that the orbits of Tremacebus are not as large as nocturnal Aotus...
  3. ncbi Comment on "Grasping primate origins"
    E Christopher Kirk
    Department of Biological Anthropology, and AnatomyDuke University Medical CenterBox 3170Durham, North Carolina 27710, USA
    Science 300:741; author reply 741. 2003
  4. ncbi New platyrrhine monkeys from the Solimões Formation (late Miocene, Acre State, Brazil)
    Richard F Kay
    Department of Biological Anthropology and Anatomy, Duke University, Durham, NC 27710, USA
    J Hum Evol 50:673-86. 2006
    ..One of those specimens is a late Miocene representative of the middle Miocene Colombian genus Stirtonia. The other represents one of the largest known platyrrhine primates, for which is erected a new primate genus, Acrecebus fraileyi...
  5. ncbi New perspectives on anthropoid origins
    Blythe A Williams
    Department of Evolutionary Anthropology, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708 0383, USA
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 107:4797-804. 2010
    ..Progress in comparative anatomy, genomics, and molecular biology point to key changes in sensory ecology and brain organization that ultimately set the stage for the emergence of the human lineage...
  6. ncbi Locomotor head movements and semicircular canal morphology in primates
    Michael D Malinzak
    Department of Evolutionary Anthropology, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 109:17914-9. 2012
    ..e., along planes at 90° angles to one another). The extent to which the canal configuration approaches orthogonality is correlated with rotational head speed independent of body mass and phylogeny, whereas R is not...
  7. ncbi Dietary quality and encephalization in platyrrhine primates
    Kari L Allen
    Department of Evolutionary Anthropology, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA
    Proc Biol Sci 279:715-21. 2012
    ..Therefore, it is unlikely that a shift in diet quality was a primary constraint release for encephalization in platyrrhines and, by extrapolation, humans...
  8. ncbi The paleobiology of Amphipithecidae, South Asian late Eocene primates
    Richard F Kay
    Department of Biological Anthropology and Anatomy, Duke University Medical Center, Durham NC 27710, USA
    J Hum Evol 46:3-25. 2004
    ..The short distal load arm of the calcaneus is consistent with, but not exclusive to, slow, arboreal quadrupedalism, and suggests no reliance on habitual leaping...
  9. ncbi Hypoglossal canal size in living hominoids and the evolution of human speech
    William L Jungers
    Department of Anatomical Sciences, School of Medicine, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794-8081, USA
    Hum Biol 75:473-84. 2003
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  10. ncbi The oldest Asian record of Anthropoidea
    Sunil Bajpai
    Department of Earth Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee 247 667, India
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 105:11093-8. 2008
    ..Eosimiids bear little adaptive resemblance to later Eocene-early Oligocene African Anthropoidea...
  11. ncbi The upper dentition and face of Pondaungia cotteri from central Myanmar
    Nobuo Shigehara
    Primate Research Institute, Kyoto University, Inuyama 484-8506, Japan
    J Hum Evol 43:143-66. 2002
    ..The present material adds to the structural similarities between Pondaungia and anthropoids, but whether these similarities are due to shared descent or functional and adaptive convergence remains unresolved...
  12. ncbi What's in a name? Family-group taxonomy of larger-bodied Southeast Asian Eocene primates
    Patricia A Holroyd
    J Hum Evol 43:755-8. 2002