Hominoids diverged from cercopithecoids during the Oligocene in Afro-Arabia, initially
radiating in that continent and subsequently dispersing into Eurasia. From the Late Miocene …

Fossils provide our only direct window into evolutionary events in the distant past.
Incorporating them into phylogenetic hypotheses of living clades can help time-calibrate …

The current literature on marsupial phylogenetics includes numerous studies based on
analyses of morphological data with limited sampling of Recent and fossil taxa, and many …

A clade's evolutionary history is shaped, in part, by geographical range expansion,
sweepstakes dispersal and local extinction. A rigorous understanding of historical …

Phylogenetic relationships among sloths (Folivora) have been extensively studied in the
past few decades using maximum parsimony approaches. Recently, Bayesian phylogenetic …

Echinoids are key components of modern marine ecosystems. Despite a remarkable fossil
record, the emergence of their crown group is documented by few specimens of unclear …

There have been multiple published phylogenetic analyses of platyrrhine primates (New
World monkeys) using both morphological and molecular data, but relatively few that have …

Simple Summary All life is derived from a single common ancestor, whose descendants
coevolved with the planet, shaping the structure of biodiversity and the physical processes …

Fossils are essential to infer past evolutionary processes. The assignment of fossils to extant
clades has traditionally relied on morphological similarity and on apomorphies shared with …

Establishing the temporal sequence of the Middle-Late Jurassic Yanliao Biota is essential as
it anchors the timing of many key evolutionary innovations in vertebrates. Lack of sufficiently …