Molecular studies suggest that the lineages leading to humans and chimpanzees diverged
approximately 6.5–5.5 million years (Myr) ago, in the Late Miocene1–3. Hominid fossils from …

New discoveries of fossil primates from the Asian Palaeogene have led to reconsider the
phylogenetical relationships between anthropoid primates from Asia and Africa. The data …

Recent paleontological collections at the middle Miocene locality of Maboko Island in
Kenya, dated at 15–16 million years, have yielded numerous new specimens belonging to …

Old World monkeys (Cercopithecoidea) are a highly successful primate radiation, with more
than 130 living species and the broadest geographic range of any extant group except …

The origin and dispersal of the New World monkeys to the South American continent present
an interesting dilemma, for paleogeographical evidence indicates that South America had …

One of the major lacunae in our knowledge of African hominoid evolution concerns the
origins of the chimpanzee and gorilla. Several thousand specimens from the Plio …

The appearance of the Iron Age of southern Africa early in the first millennium AD is
associated with the migration of Bantu speakers who were broadly ancestral to present-day …

Abstract A hominin mandible, KNM-ER 63000, and associated vertebrate remains were
recovered in 2011 from Area 40 in East Turkana, Kenya. Tephrostratigraphic and …

Although Asia is thought to have played a critical role in the radiation of artiodactyls, the
fossil record of stem selenodonts (“dichobunoids”) remains dramatically poor in tropical …

A 2.8 Ma old mandible unearthed in Ethiopia fills the gap between ape-like
australopithecines and representatives of the genus Homo. It pushes the origin of large …