Diverse lines of geological and geochemical evidence indicate that the Eocene-Oligocene
transition (EOT) marked the onset of a global cooling phase, rapid growth of the Antarctic ice …

We define 17 African land mammal ages, or AFLMAs, covering the Cenozoic record of the
Afro-arabian continent, the planet's second largest land mass. While fossiliferous deposits …

Dental topography reflects diet accurately in several extant and extinct mammalian clades.
However, dental topographic dietary reconstructions have high success rates only when …

The peculiar mammalian fauna that inhabited Afro‐Arabia during the Paleogene first came
to the attention of the scientific community in the early part of the twentieth century, when …

Afro-Arabian mammalian communities underwent a marked transition near the
Oligocene/Miocene boundary at approximately 24 million years (Myr) ago. Although it is well …

Gorilla patterns of variation have great relevance for studies of human evolution. In this
study, molar morphometrics were used to evaluate patterns of geographic variation in …

The current paucity of Pleistocene vertebrate records from the Arabian Peninsula–a
landmass of over 3 million km 2–is a significant gap in our knowledge of the Quaternary …

Previous research by the first author revealed that, relative to other modern peoples, sub-
Saharan Africans exhibit the highest frequencies of ancestral (or plesiomorphic) dental traits …

Dental analyses of the Holocene Khoesan populations of southern Africa can provide insight
into the biological evolution of an anthropologically important people. There have been …

Analyses of hominin dental remains conventionally include measurements of tooth crown
sizes and descriptions of occlusal morphology such as minor accessory cusps, fissure …