Profound environmental and faunal changes are associated with climatic deterioration
during the Eocene-Oligocene transition (EOT) roughly 34 million years ago. Reconstructing …

Although chimpanzees are our closest living relatives, humans also share many important
anatomical and biochemical characteristics with a large group of extant and fossil primates …

Afro-Arabian mammalian communities underwent a marked transition near the
Oligocene/Miocene boundary at approximately 24 million years (Myr) ago. Although it is well …

Although all extant apes are threatened with extinction, there is no evidence for human-
caused extinctions of apes or other primates in postglacial continental ecosystems, despite …

A full understanding of primate morphological and genomic evolution requires the
identification of their closest living relative. In order to resolve the ancestral relationships …

BACKGROUND The earliest fossils of Homo sapiens are located in Africa and dated to the
late Middle Pleistocene. At some point later, modern humans dispersed into Asia and …

Phylogenetic evidence suggests that platyrrhine (or New World) monkeys and caviomorph
rodents of the Western Hemisphere derive from source groups from the Eocene of Afro …

INTRODUCTION Reconstructing the ancestral morphotype from which extant hominoids
(apes and humans) evolved is complicated by the mosaic nature of ape evolution, the …

Most orders and many families of modern mammals were established during the
Palaeogene. Mammalian evolution during this period of time has been correlated with …

Adapiform or 'adapoid'primates first appear in the fossil record in the earliest Eocene epoch
(∼ 55 million years (Myr) ago), and were common components of Palaeogene primate …