In 2004, a new hominin species, Homo floresiensis, was described from Late Pleistocene
cave deposits at Liang Bua, Flores. H. floresiensis was remarkable for its small body-size …

Abstract The Cross River gorilla (Gorilla gorilla diehli), a recently revived fourth subspecies
of gorilla, is the most endangered and poorly studied ape taxon. Only about 300 Cross River …

While a number of studies have documented the mandibular variations in hominoids, few
focused on evaluating the variation of the whole outline of this structure. Using an efficient …

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 …

As many as four geographically distinct subspecies of chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) may
persist across sub-Saharan Africa, but little is known about the geographic boundaries that …

In order to reveal differences between Asian and African colobines (nonhuman primates) in
terms of dietary adaptation and evolutionary development, a large number of the species of …

Dispersal, one of the key life-history features of a species, influences gene flow and,
consequently, the genetic structuring of populations. Landscape characteristics such as …

Closely related species are likely to experience resource competition in areas where their
ranges overlap. Fossil evidence suggests that hominins in East Africa c. 2–1.5 million years …

Improvements in the primate fossil record, and in methods of data acquisition and analysis,
have set the stage for new insights into the development, function, and evolution of hominoid …

Papio originated in the early Pleistocene and diverged into multiple species, six of which are
extant. Among parapatric Papio species, there are obvious phenotypic differences that arose …