Examination of orbit size and optic foramen size in living primates reveals two adaptive
phenomena. First, as noted by many authors, orbit size is strongly correlated with activity …

▪ Abstract Anthropoidea is a clade of primates including Platyrrhini and Catarrhini. Definitive
fossil anthropoids include the early Oligocene Propliopithecidae and the late Eocene–early …

Mammals are the dominant large animals of today, occurring in virtually every environment.
This book is an account of the remarkable 320 million year long fossil record that documents …

In the tradition of GG Simpson's classic work, Kenneth D. Rose's The Beginning of the Age of
Mammals analyzes the events that occurred directly before and after the mysterious KT …

The Guajá are a Tupi-Guarani speaking, traditional foraging people living in western
Maranhão, Brazil. I spent approximately fifteen months among the Guajá between February …

Platyrrhine primates and caviomorph rodents are clades of mammals that colonized South
America during its period of isolation from the other continents, between 100 and 3 million …

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 …

Hypotheses for the adaptive origin of primates have reconstructed nocturnality as the
primitive activity pattern for the entire order based on functional/adaptive interpretations of …

Most definitions of the order primates make some reference to the importance of vision
relative to the other special senses (Le Gros Clark, 1959; Martin, 1990; Napier and Napier …

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 …