Part I. Chronology and Environment: 1. Chronology and zoogeography of the Miocene hominoid record in Europe J. Agusti, L. Cabrera and M. Garcés; 2. The trophic context of hominoid occurrence in the Later Miocene of Western Eurasia - a primate-free view Mikael Fortelius and Arja Hokkanen; Part II. Methods and Phylogeny: 3. Computer-assisted morphometry of hominoid fossils: the role of morphometric maps Christoph P. E. Zollikofer and Marcia S. Ponce de Léon; 4. Comparative analysis of the iliac trabecular architecture in extant and fossil primates by means of digital image processing techniques: implications for the reconstruction of fossil locomotor behaviours Roberto Macchiarelli, Lorenzo Rook and Luca Bondioli; 5. Dental microwear and diet in Eurasian Miocene catarrhines Tania King; 6. How reliable are current estimates of fossil catarrhine phylogeny? An assessment using great apes and Old World monkeys Mark Collard and Bernard Wood; 7. Cranial discrete variation in the great apes: new prospects in palaeoprimatology José Braga; Part III. Miocene Hominoids: Function and Phylogeny: 8. Eurasian hominoid evolution in the light of recent Dryopithecus findings Meike Köhler, Salvador Moyà-Solà and David M. Alba; 9. Functional morphology of Ankarapithecus meteai Peter Andrews and Berna Alpagut; 10. African and Eurasian Miocene hominoids and the origins of the Hominidae D. R. Begun; 11. Phylogenetic relationships of Ouranopithecus macedoniensis (Mammalia, Primates, Hominoidea, Hominidae) of the late Miocene deposits of Central Macedonia (Greece) Louis de Bonis and George D. Koufos; 12. Phylogeny and sexually dimorphic characters: canine reduction in Ouranopithecus Jay Kelley; 13. Heterochrony and the cranial anatomy of Oreopithecus: some cladistic fallacies and the significance of developmental constraints in phylogenetic analysis D. M. Alba, S. Moyà-Solà, M. Köhler and L. Rook; 14. The Late Miocene hominoid from Georgia Leo Gabunia, Ekaterine Gabashvili, Abesalom Vekua and David Lordkipanidze; 15. Forelimb function, bone curvature and phylogeny of Sivapithecus Brian G. Richmond and Michael Whalen; 16. Sivapithecus and hominoid evolution: some brief comments David R. Pilbeam and Nathan M. Young.