Over the last 90 years, Eocene and Oligocene aged sediments in the Fayum Depression of
Egypt have yielded at least 17 genera of fossil primates. However, of this diverse sample the …

Our traditional scheme during the twentieth century was that Homo erectus had thrived on
the vast terrain of eastern Asia since the Early Pleistocene, followed by the appearance of a …

Previous research by the first author revealed that, relative to other modern peoples, sub-
Saharan Africans exhibit the highest frequencies of ancestral (or plesiomorphic) dental traits …

Orangutans (Pongo) are the only great ape genus with a substantial Pleistocene and
Holocene fossil record, demonstrating a much larger geographic range than extant …

Since 2000, significant collections of Latest Miocene hominin fossils have been recovered
from Chad, Kenya, and Ethiopia. These fossils have provided a better understanding of …

Frost et al.(1) show that molars of the East African Theropithecus oswaldi lineage become
systematically larger from 4.0 to 0.5 My. They use this trend to infer ages for various South …

The evolutionary history of Asian Miocene hominids (great apes and humans) remains
poorly documented, obscuring the ancestry of orangutan (Pongo). Khoratpithecus from the …

In 1967 GG Simpson described three partial mandibles from early Miocene deposits in
Kenya that he interpreted as belonging to a new strepsirrhine primate, Propotto. This …

It is widely understood that Hominoidea (apes and humans) and Cercopithecoidea (Old
World monkeys) have a common ancestry as Catarrhini deeply rooted in Afro-Arabia,,,. The …

Abstract Objectives The Pleistocene taxon Paranthropus robustus was established in 1938
following the discovery at Kromdraai B, South Africa, of the partial cranium TM 1517a and …