In 1974, Cartmill introduced the theory that the earliest primate adaptations were related to
their being visually oriented predators active on slender branches. Given more recent data …

Traditionally, the morphological traits of primates were assumed to be adaptations to an
arboreal way of life. However, Cartmill [1972] pointed out that a number of morphological …

The didelphid Caluromys shows evolutionary convergence towards prosimians in having a
relatively large brain, large eyes, small litters, slow development, and agile locomotion. The …

Most primates live in trees, and many of them have strikingly human‐like hands and faces.
Scientists who study primate evolution agree that these two facts must be connected in some …

Many of the characters of the basic suite of primate adaptations have at one time or the other
been ascribed to arboreality. Frederick Wood Jones (1916) proposed that tree climbing lead …

Fruiting trees in tropical forests depend for their existence on the animals that eat their fruit.
Seeds falling below the parent plant are less likely to survive than those dispersed at a …

The insectivore-primate transition was probably initiated at the end of the Cretaceous or
earlier by behavioral and physiological adaptations. As behavioral modifications …

Early grasping. Reconstruction of Carpolestes simpsoni, a plesiadapiform primate, foraging
for fruit in the terminal (slender) branches of a Cornelian Cherry tree (dogwood species …

The question of whether the earliest cercopithecoids were adapted for folivory or frugivory
has implications for understanding the divergence of Old World monkeys and apes …

In this paper, we evaluate patterns of fruit eating and seed dispersal in monkeys and apes
and draw an important distinction between 1) the ecological consequences of primates as …