The comparative method plays a central role in efforts to uncover the adaptive basis for
primate behaviors, morphological traits, and cognitive abilities. 1–4 The comparative method …

Environmental stress on primate populations can take many forms. Abiotic factors, such as
temperature and precipitation, may directly influence the behavior of primates owing to …

Animal visual signals have the potential to act as an isolating barrier to prevent
interbreeding of populations through a role in species recognition. Within communities of …

Molecular studies reveal highly ordered geographic patterns in plant and animal
distributions. The tropics illustrate these patterns of community immobilism leading to …

In recent years, hybridization has gained recognition as an important creative force in
primate evolution. The exchange of genetic material between species provides genetic …

Ecological research often assumes that species are adapted to their current climatic
environments. However, climate fluctuations over geologic timescales have influenced …

Biogeography and Evolution in New Zealand provides the first in-depth treatment of the
biogeography of New Zealand, a region that has been a place of long-enduring interest to …

Diamond (Assembly of species communities. In: Cody ML, Diamond JM, editors. Ecology
and evolution of communities. Cambridge: Belknap. p 342–444 (1975)) argued that …

The complex taxonomy and biogeography of the highly polytypic and widespread gentle
monkey Cercopithecus mitis continue to be debated. Tanzania and Kenya, together, support …

Aim Here, I investigate galagid diversification and current distribution in the context of major
climatic and geological events in sub‐Saharan Africa. Given their widespread distribution …