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 …

Abstract Tropical Southeast (SE) Asia harbors extraordinary species richness and in its
entirety comprises four of the Earth's 34 biodiversity hotspots. Here, we examine the …

New research presented in this special issue of Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution on
the “Phylogeny and Biogeography of Neotropical Primates” greatly improves our …

The eastern Himalayan syntaxis has experienced some of the highest rates of deformation
and erosion in the orogen during the Late Cenozoic, and the Yarlung Tsangpo …

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 …

Strain resulting from the collision of India with Asia has caused fundamental changes to
Asian drainage patterns, but the timing and nature of these changes are poorly understood …

Reconstructing the early evolutionary history of anthropoid primates is hindered by a lack of
consensus on both the timing and biogeography of anthropoid origins,,. Some prefer an …

Reconstructing the origin and early evolutionary history of anthropoid primates (monkeys,
apes, and humans) is a current focus of paleoprimatology. Although earlier hypotheses …