Tropical Africa is home to an astonishing biodiversity occurring in a variety of ecosystems.
Past climatic change and geological events have impacted the evolution and diversification …

During the late Pleistocene, isolated lineages of hominins exchanged genes thus
influencing genomic variation in humans in both the past and present. However, the …

Baboons, members of the genus Papio, comprise six closely related species distributed
throughout sub-Saharan Africa and southwest Arabia. The species exhibit more ecological …

Studies of the effects of habitat fragmentation and degradation on primate positional
behavior, strata use, and substrate utilization offer valuable insights into the behavioral and …

A remarkable and derived trait of humans is the faculty for language, and considerable
research effort has been devoted to understanding the evolution of speech. In contrast to …

Background Species with a restricted geographic distribution, and highly specialized habitat
and dietary requirements, are particularly vulnerable to extinction. The Bale monkey …

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 …

Baboons (genus Papio) are an intriguing study system to investigate complex evolutionary
processes and the evolution of social systems. An increasing number of studies over the last …

The green monkey Chlorocebus sabaeus, L. 1766, native to West Africa, was introduced to
the Cabo Verde Archipelago in the 16th century. Historical sources suggest that, due to the …

Abstract The living guenons (Cercopithecini, Cercopithecidae) are speciose and widely
distributed across sub-Saharan Africa but are poorly represented in the fossil record. In …