Generally, the common people think of fossils as preserved bones and teeth of ancient
vertebrates. If we go a little bit further, we consider fossils as preserved hard parts of …

Humans exhibit great phenotypic diversity in both healthy and patho-physiological
conditions as a result of molecular regulatory and metab-olic systems underlying the …

The evolutionary history of East Asian populations has involved several multidisciplinary
approaches, but this review will bring in a different type of analysis, that of paleoproteomic …

Birds (Aves) are the most species-rich terrestrial vertebrate group alive today, with a deep
evolutionary history extending back to the Cretaceous and surviving through the Cretaceous …

Xenarthra é um grupo de mamíferos placentários restrito às Américas, que atualmente é
representado pelos tatus, tamanduás e pelos bichos-preguiça. Ao longo de sua história …

Remains of megatheres such as Eremotherium spp. and Megatherium spp. have been
known since the 18th-century and were among the first megafaunal vertebrates to be …

Morphological evolution is heterogeneous and analytical methods should take this into
consideration in order to produce reliable inferences, both for phylogenetic analyses and for …

This report is the first to identify the presence of the extinct ground sloth Glossotherium
tropicorum from Pleistocene-aged tar pit deposits in Trinidad. G. tropicorum is known …

The field of archaeogenetics, a study of DNA sequences from ancient biological remains,
has experienced an explosive growth during the last decade. By exploiting genome-scale …