Deciphering the timing of the placental mammal radiation is a longstanding problem in
evolutionary biology, but consensus on the tempo and mode of placental diversification …

Numerous factors have stimulated new enthusiasm for understanding the process of primate
origins, including new fossil discoveries, improvements to methods for analyzing molecular …

Phylonyms is an implementation of PhyloCode, which is a set of principles, rules, and
recommendations governing phylogenetic nomenclature. Nearly 300 clades-lineages of …

Explaining the evolution of primate social organization has been fundamental to understand
human sociality and social evolution more broadly. It has often been suggested that the …

A distinctive trait in primate evolution is the expansion in brain mass. The potential drivers of
this trend and how and whether encephalization influenced diversification dynamics in this …

Primates of modern aspect (euprimates) are characterized by a suite of characteristics (eg,
convergent orbits, grasping hands and feet, reduced claws, and leaping), but the selective …

Plesiadapiform mammals, as stem primates, are key to understanding the evolutionary and
ecological origins of Pan-Primates and Euarchonta. The Purgatoriidae, as the geologically …

Fine-branch models have long played a central role in primate evolutionary research.
Nevertheless, recent studies of positional behavior in nonprimate arboreal mammals have …

The Picrodontidae from the middle Palaeocene of North America are enigmatic placental
mammals that were allied with various mammalian groups but are generally now considered …

Palaechthonid plesiadapiforms from the Palaeocene of western North America have long
been recognized as among the oldest and most primitive euarchontan mammals, a group …