Dating the tree of life is a core endeavor in evolutionary biology. Rates of evolution are
fundamental to nearly every evolutionary model and process. Rates need dates. There is …

Human hands are distinguished from apes by possessing longer thumbs relative to fingers.
However, this simple ape-human dichotomy fails to provide an adequate framework for …

INTRODUCTION Reconstructing the ancestral morphotype from which extant hominoids
(apes and humans) evolved is complicated by the mosaic nature of ape evolution, the …

Humans, Old World monkeys, gibbons, and the great apes of Africa and Asia are the only
survivors of a highly diverse evolutionary radiation that began at least 28 million years ago …

The craniodental anatomy of Miocene apes from the Vallès-Penedès Basin (Primates:
Hominidae): Implications for the origin of e Page 1 The craniodental anatomy of Miocene apes …

and one of our main sources of interaction with the environment 1. The human hand can be
distinguished fromthatofapesbyitslongthumbrelativetongers 14 (Fig. 1a), which has been …