We review an ungulate mammalian fauna of the Eocene Pondaung Formation, central
Myanmar, and herein describe new dental specimens. The taxa newly recognized in the …

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 mammalian order Primates made its first appearance in the fossil record during the
Paleocene–Eocene thermal maximum (PETM), the global greenhouse warming event that …

Adapiform or 'adapoid'primates first appear in the fossil record in the earliest Eocene epoch
(∼ 55 million years (Myr) ago), and were common components of Palaeogene primate …

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

In various respects anthropology has developed along paths leading into isolation. It no
longer should hesitate to stake clear claims for all of primatology, now that the comforting old …

Living Anthropoidea—the group that includes monkeys, apes, and humans—has long been
recognized as a monophyletic group among primates diagnosed by a suite of features of the …

The Mawchi Mine in Myanmar is a historic world-class Sn–W deposit within the tin province
of Southeast Asia, extending from Yunnan in SW China through Myanmar and Thailand, via …

Taking us back roughly 45 million years into the Eocene," the dawn of recent life," Chris
Beard, a world-renowned expert on the primate fossil record, offers a tantalizing new …

The family Amphipithecidae is one of the two fossil primate taxa from Asia that appear to be
early members of the anthropoid clade. Ganlea megacanina, gen. et sp. nov., is a new …