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Elwyn L. Simons

Elwyn L. Simons, James B. Duke Professor of Biological Anthropology & Anatomy and Head, Division of Fossil Primates

Contact Info:
DUPC Division of Fossil Primates
esimons@duke.edu
Education:
  • D.Sc., University College, Oxford, 1995
  • D. Phil, University College, Oxford, 1959
  • Ph.D., Princeton University, 1956

Curriculum Vitae
Representative Publications   (More Publications)

  1. ER Seiffert, EL Simons and Y Attia. "Fossil evidence for an ancient divergence of lorises and galagos.." Nature 422.6930 (2003): 421-424. [12660781], [doi]  [abs]
  2. EL Simons. "The cranium of Parapithecus grangeri, an Egyptian Oligocene anthropoidean primate.." Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 98.14 (2001): 7892-7897. [11438736], [doi]  [abs]
  3. EL Simons, ER Seiffert, PS Chatrath and Y Attia. "Earliest record of a parapithecid anthropoid from the Jebel Qatrani formation, Northern Egypt.." Folia Primatol (Basel) 72.6 (2002): 316-331. [11964500]  [abs]
  4. ER Seiffert and EL Simons. "Astragalar morphology of late Eocene anthropoids from the Fayum Depression (Egypt) and the origin of catarrhine primates.." J Hum Evol 41.6 (2001): 577-606. [11782110], [doi]  [abs]
  5. ER Seiffert, EL Simons and JG Fleagle. "Anthropoid humeri from the late Eocene of Egypt.." Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 97.18 (2000): 10062-10067. [10963669]  [abs]
  6. EL Simons and ER Seiffert. "A partial skeleton of Proteopithecus sylviae (Primates, Anthropoidea): first associated dental and postcranial remains of an Eocene anthropoidean." COMPTES RENDUS DE L ACADEMIE DES SCIENCES SERIE II FASCICULE A-SCIENCES DE LA TERRE ET DES PLANETES Comptes Rendus De L'Academie Des Sciences Serie II Fascicule a- Sciences De La Terre Et Des Planetes 329.12 (1999): 921-927. [Gateway.cgi], [doi]
  7. EL Simons, JM Plavcan and JG Fleagle. "Canine sexual dimorphism in Egyptian Eocene anthropoid primates: Catopithecus and Proteopithecus.." Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 96.5 (1999): 2559-2562. [10051682]  [abs]
  8. EL Simons. "The prosimian fauna of the fayum Eocene/Oligocene deposits of Egypt." FOLIA PRIMATOLOGICA 69 (1998): 286-294. [Gateway.cgi]
  9. EL Simons. "Preliminary description of the cranium of Proteopithecus sylviae, an Egyptian late Eocene anthropoidean primate.." Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 94.26 (1997): 14970-14975. [9405723]  [abs]
  10. EL Simons and DT Rasmussen. "Skull of Catopithecus browni, an early tertiary catarrhine.." Am J Phys Anthropol 100.2 (1996): 261-292. [8771315], [doi]  [abs]
  11. RE Wunderlich, EL Simons and WL Jungers. "New pedal remains of Megaladapis and their functional significance." AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY 100.1 (1996): 115-138. [Gateway.cgi], [doi]