Introduction.- Functional Anatomy of Sound Production & Reception in Primates.- Functional anatomy of sound production in primates.- The primate peripheral auditory system.- Neural processing, perception & psychoacoustics.- Primate auditory sensitivity.- Habitat Acoustics and Vocal Communication.- Habitat acoustics.- Modeling the origins of primate vocal communication: a comparative approach to nocturnal prosimians.- Vocal communication in “family-living”/pair-bonded primates.- Vocal communication in large social groups.- Evolution of hearing and language in humans.
The lead editor has published a number of articles in international, peer-reviewed scientific journals related to the functional morphology of the outer and middle ear in humans, primates and fossil hominins, and his ongoing research program centers on the study of the evolution of human hearing. The co-editor has published articles and contributed a book chapter on auditory sensitivity in primates and has an active research program focusing on primate bioacoustics.
Primate Hearing and Communication provides unique insights into the evolution of hearing and communication in primates, including humans.
· Introduction to Primate Hearing and Communication
Marissa A. Ramsier and Rolf M. Quam
· The Primate Peripheral Auditory System and the Evolution of Primate Hearing
SirpaNummela
· Primate Audition: Reception, Perception, and Ecology
Marissa A. Ramsier and Josef P. Rauschecker
· Primate Habitat Acoustics
Charles H. Brown and Peter M. Waser
· Evolutionary Origins of Primate Vocal Communication: Diversity, Flexibility, and Complexity of Vocalizations in Basal Primates
Elke Zimmermann
· Vocal Communication in Family-Living and Pair-Bonded Primates
Charles T. Snowdon
· The Primate Roots of Human Language
Klaus Zuberbühler
· Evolution of Hearing and Language in Fossil Hominins
Rolf M. Quam, Ignacio Martínez, Manuel Rosa, and Juan Luis Arsuaga
Rolf M. Quam is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology, Binghamton University (SUNY), Binghamton, NY
Marissa A. Ramsier is Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology, Humboldt State University, Arcata, CA
Richard R. Fay is Distinguished Research Professor of Psychology at Loyola University of Chicago
Arthur N. Popper is Professor Emeritus and Research Professor in the Department of Biology at the University of Maryland, College Park