Following the break-up of West Gondwana in the middle Cretaceous, both Africa and South
America existed in “splendid isolation”, devoid of any terrestrial connections to other …

Paleogene temporal and paleogeographic constraints on mammalian faunal interchange
between Africa and Eurasia are reassessed in order to discuss the origin of Primates …

Although Africa was south of the Tethys Sea and originally belonged to the Gondwana, its
paleobiogeographical history appears to have been distinct from those of both Gondwana …

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

The initial dispersal of humans out of Africa was a significant event in human evolution
raising many questions. Why did this happen at this particular time? Was it part of a major …

Several groups of mammals originated in Africa and then immigrated to Eurasia during
some intervals of the Cenozoic, thus greatly contributing to the mammalian biodiversity in …

Although doubts about the African origins of the human lineage have been raised in recent
years, particularly over the origins of Homo erectus (White, 1995; Dennell, 2004), the …

We define 17 African land mammal ages, or AFLMAs, covering the Cenozoic record of the
Afro-arabian continent, the planet's second largest land mass. While fossiliferous deposits …

Discoveries of fossil Homo outside Africa predating 1.0 Ma have generated much discussion
about hominin dispersal routes. However, tool-using bipeds were only one element of the …

Carnivorans and hominins share a long history of interactions. This paper examines some of
the evidence for carnivoran migration out of Africa at the same time as the earliest hominin …