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The Role of Genes and Development in the Evolution of the Primate Hand

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The Evolution of the Primate Hand

Part of the book series: Developments in Primatology: Progress and Prospects ((DIPR))

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Primate hands are morphologically and functionally diverse. Morphological diversity is the product of variation in the developmental programs of the forelimb and hand, both among individuals within a species, and across species. In this chapter, I review the cell and molecular processes that regulate vertebrate hand development, from early embryonic patterning to postnatal growth of the musculoskeletal, neurovascular and integumentary systems. I also provide an overview of how these highly conserved developmental processes can be modulated, through changes in gene regulatory elements, to produce selectable phenotypic variation among individuals. Finally, I discuss how these developmental processes can constrain, or facilitate, the evolution of the primate hand in response to selection, through their effects on the magnitude and directionality of phenotypic variation within the hand, and phenotypic covariation between the hand and other parts of the body.

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Thank you to the editors for inviting me to participate in this volume, especially to Pierre Lemelin for sharing his strepsirrhine hand data. Heather Jamniczky and Benedikt Hallgrimsson provided comments on a draft of this chapter, and their input is gratefully acknowledged.

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  1. Department of Comparative Biology and Experimental Medicine, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Calgary, 3330 Hospital Dr NW, Calgary, T2N 0L8, AB, Canada

    Campbell Rolian

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  1. Department of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary An, Leipzig, Germany

    Tracy L. Kivell

  2. Division of Anatomy Department of Surgery Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

    Pierre Lemelin

  3. Division of Anthropology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York, USA

    Brian G. Richmond

  4. Department of Evolutionary Anthropology, Duke University , Durham, North Carolina, USA

    Daniel Schmitt

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Rolian, C. (2016). The Role of Genes and Development in the Evolution of the Primate Hand. In: Kivell, T., Lemelin, P., Richmond, B., Schmitt, D. (eds) The Evolution of the Primate Hand. Developments in Primatology: Progress and Prospects. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-3646-5_5

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