All members of the family Hepadnaviridae are primarily viruses which contain double-
stranded DNA genomes that are replicated via reverse transcription of a pregenomic RNA …

The peculiar mammalian fauna that inhabited Afro‐Arabia during the Paleogene first came
to the attention of the scientific community in the early part of the twentieth century, when …

Phylogenetic relationships, divergence times, and patterns of biogeographic descent among
primate species are both complex and contentious. Here, we generate a robust molecular …

The platyrrhine primates, or New World monkeys, are immigrant mammals whose fossil
record comes from Tertiary and Quaternary sediments of South America and the Caribbean …

Recent fossil discoveries in Western Amazonia revealed that two distinct anthropoid primate
clades of African origin colonized South America near the Eocene/Oligocene transition (ca …

Throughout the world, closely related species are found on landmasses separated by wide
stretches of ocean. What explains these far-flung distributions? Why are such species found …

The geological history of the Burmese subduction margin, where India obliquely subducts
below Indochina, remains poorly documented although it is key to deciphering geodynamic …

Diurnal light-dark cycle resets the master clock, while timed food intake is another potent
synchronizer of peripheral clocks in mammals. As the largest metabolic organ, the liver …

Profound environmental and faunal changes are associated with climatic deterioration
during the Eocene-Oligocene transition (EOT) roughly 34 million years ago. Reconstructing …

Molecular data have converged on a consensus about the genus-level phylogeny of extant
platyrrhine monkeys, but for most extinct taxa and certainly for those older than the …