Phylogenomic studies have improved understanding of deep metazoan phylogeny and
show promise for resolving incongruences among analyses based on limited numbers of …

Ranging and residence patterns among early hominins have been indirectly inferred from
morphology,, stone-tool sourcing, referential models, and phylogenetic models,,. However …

Xenarthra (armadillos, sloths, and anteaters) constitutes one of the four major clades of
placental mammals. Despite their phylogenetic distinctiveness in mammals, a reference …

No large group of recently extinct placental mammals remains as evolutionarily cryptic as
the approximately 280 genera grouped as 'South American native ungulates'. To Charles …

GROUND sloths (Gravigrada, Xenarthra) are known from middle or late Oligocene to late
Pleistocene in South America1 and from late Miocene to late Pleistocene in North America2 …

Near the end of the Pleistocene epoch, populations of the woolly mammoth (Mammuthus
primigenius) were distributed across parts of three continents, from western Europe and …

The temporal and spatial coarseness of megafaunal fossil records complicates attempts to to
disentangle the relative impacts of climate change, ecosystem restructuring, and human …

Molecular data have converged on a consensus about the genus-level phylogeny of extant
platyrrhine monkeys, but for most extinct taxa and certainly for those older than the …

Ancient DNA is transforming our ability to reconstruct historical patterns and mechanisms
shaping modern diversity and distributions. In particular, molecular data from extinct …

Background The use of mitochondrial DNA data in phylogenetics is controversial, yet studies
that combine mitochondrial and nuclear DNA data (mtDNA and nucDNA) to estimate …