Although doubts about the African origins of the human lineage have been raised in recent
years, particularly over the origins of Homo erectus (White, 1995; Dennell, 2004), the …

A diverse fossil record of Cervidae (Mammalia) has been documented in the South
American Pleistocene, when these animals arrived during the Great American Biotic …

The visual-predation hypothesis proposes that certain derived features shared by crown
primates reflect an insectivorous ancestry. Critics of this idea have argued that because …

The tarsier skull has been of particular interest in studies of primate taxonomy and functional
morphology for several decades. Despite this, there remains no comprehensive data on how …

Plesiadapiformes constitutes a Paleocene and Eocene group of mammals which has
received special attention in the last few decades, mainly due to its still unresolved …

The zygoma, or jugum, is a cranial element that was present in Mesozoic tetrapods, well
before the appearance of mammals. Although as an entity the zygoma is a primitive …

Ecomorphology–the characterisation of the adaptive relationship between an organism's
morphology and its ecological role–has long been central to theories of the origin and early …

Darwinius is an adapoid primate from the Eocene of Germany, and its only known specimen
represents the most complete fossil primate ever found. Its describers hypothesized a close …

The early Eocene of the southern Bighorn Basin, Wyoming, is notable for its nearly
continuous record of mammalian fossils. Microsyopinae (? Primates) is one of several …

Using high resolution X‐ray computed tomography data we examined the relationship
between cochlear labyrinth volume and body mass in extant, non‐primate …