Although the evolutionary history of anthropoid primates (monkeys, apes, and humans)
appears relatively well‐documented, there is limited data available regarding their origins …

Reconstructing the origin and early evolutionary history of anthropoid primates (monkeys,
apes, and humans) is a current focus of paleoprimatology. Although earlier hypotheses …

The early fossil record of primates is very rich, but it is limited to nonrandom windows in time
and space based on vagueries of historical geology. Most primates known are fossil taxa …

The phylogenetic and geographic origins of the primate suborder Anthropoidea have long
been major focal points in the study of primate evolution. Field work in Africa and Asia over …

Anthropoid primates other than humans show a conspicuously disjunct geographic
distribution today, inhabiting mostly tropical and subtropical parts of Asia, Africa, and Central …

Abstract Late Eocene primates of Asia are often mentioned in discussions of anthropoid
origins. This is in part because of the distinctive morphologies of Asian Eocene primates that …

The suborder Anthropoidea, also called simians or simiiforms, contains New and Old World
monkeys, apes, and humans. The recent discovery of early primate remains has led to the …

Primates have been known from Eocene deposits in southern Asia since 1927 (Pilgrim,
1927). Three relatively large-bodied taxa, Pondaungia, Arnphipithecus, and Siamopithecus …

Living Anthropoidea—the group that includes monkeys, apes, and humans—has long been
recognized as a monophyletic group among primates diagnosed by a suite of features of the …

According to the most recent discoveries from the Middle Eocene of Myanmar and China,
anthropoid primates originated in Asia rather than in Africa, as was previously considered …