The fossil record of the human pelvis reveals the selective priorities acting on hominin
anatomy at different points in our evolutionary history, during which mechanical …

The great apes—bonobos, chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans—are critically threatened
by human activities. We have destroyed their habitats, hunted them and transmitted fatal …

This comprehensive introductory text integrates evolutionary, ecological, and demographic
perspectives with new results from field studies and contemporary noninvasive molecular …

Hominoids diverged from cercopithecoids during the Oligocene in Afro-Arabia, initially
radiating in that continent and subsequently dispersing into Eurasia. From the Late Miocene …

In popular discourse, tropical forests are synonymous with'nature'and'wilderness';
battlegrounds between apparently pristine floral, faunal, and human communities, and the …

Tropical forests constitute some of the most diverse and complex terrestrial ecosystems on
the planet. From the Miocene onward, they have acted as a backdrop to the ongoing …

An insightful and probing exploration of the contradiction between humans' enormous
capacity for hatred and their evolutionary development as a social species Why We Hate …

More than 800 isolated teeth of fossil Pongo have been recovered from cave sites in the
vicinity of Chongzuo in Guangxi, southern China, ranging from the Early to Late Pleistocene …

This article surveys the European discovery and early ideas about orangutans followed by
the contrasting experiences with these animals of the co-founders of evolution by natural …

This book provides a unique introduction to the study of relationships between gender and
biology, a core part of the feminist science research tradition which emerged nearly half a …