Nouvelles découvertes de hyaenodontidés (Creodonta, Mammalia) de la Formation
Pondaung, Éocène moyen, Myanmar: implications paléobiogéographiques. La faune de …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

The origin of orangutans has long been debated. Sivapithecus is considered to be the
closest ancestor of orangutans because of its facial–palatal similarities, but its dental …

One of the more contentious issues in anthropoid evolution is clarifying the phylogenetic
position of late Eocene and early Oligocene anthropoids from Egypt relative to Oligocene-to …

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 …

Ekgmowechashala is a poorly documented but very distinctive primate known only from the
late early Oligocene (early Arikareean) of western North America. Because of its highly …