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 …

Palaeobiogeographic reconstructions are underpinned by phylogenies, divergence times
and ancestral area reconstructions, which together yield ancestral area chronograms that …

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 …

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 …

Reconstructing the earliest phases of primate evolution has been impeded by gaps in the
fossil record, so that disagreements persist regarding the palaeobiology and phylogenetic …

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 …

Adaptive shifts associated with human origins are brought to light as we examine the human
fossil record and study our own genome and that of our closest ape relatives. However, the …

The oldest euprimates known from India come from the Early Eocene Cambay Formation at
Vastan Mine in Gujarat. An Ypresian (early Cuisian) age of∼ 53Ma (based on foraminifera) …

Undisputed anthropoids appear in the fossil record of Africa and Asia by the middle Eocene,
about 45 Ma. Here, we report the discovery of an early Eocene eosimiid anthropoid primate …