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 …

New World monkeys (Platyrrhini) appeared suddenly in South America in the middle
Cenozoic. Little is certain about their origin, but theories include an African source, either by …

New World monkeys (platyrrhines) are a diverse part of modern tropical ecosystems in North
and South America, yet their early evolutionary history in the tropics is largely unknown …

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 …

The platyrrhine primates, or New World monkeys, are immigrant mammals whose fossil
record comes from Tertiary and Quaternary sediments of South America and the Caribbean …

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

The naming of Australopithecus africanus in 1925, based on the Taung Child, heralded a
new era in human evolutionary studies and turned the attention of the then Eurasian-centric …

Referential models based on extant African apes have dominated reconstructions of early
human evolution since Darwin's time. These models visualize fundamental human …

Australopithecus fossils were regularly interpreted during the late 20th century in a
framework that used living African apes, especially chimpanzees, as proxies for the …

PARTLY because of their poor fossil record, the relationships of neotropical platyrrhine
monkeys to other groups of primates and to each other remain perhaps the most poorly …