The origins of interactions between angiosperms and fruit‐eating seed dispersers have
attracted much attention following a seminal paper on this topic by T iffney (1984). This …

Asia's slow and slender lorises (Nycticebus and Loris) are among nature's most extreme
primates. Until recently, it was not understood why lorises have such huge forward‐facing …

The origins and the divergence times of the most basal lineages within primates have been
difficult to resolve mainly due to the incomplete sampling of early fossil taxa. The main …

Estimation of divergence times is usually done using either the fossil record or sequence
data from modern species. We provide an integrated analysis of palaeontological and …

Increased brain size in humans and other primates is hypothesized to confer cognitive
benefits but brings costs associated with growing and maintaining energetically expensive …

A long-standing problem in primate evolution is the discord between paleontological and
molecular clock estimates for the time of crown primate origins: the earliest crown primate …

Understanding the origin of diversity is a fundamental problem in biology. Evolutionary
diversification has been intensely explored during the last years due to the development of …

Undisputed anthropoids appear in the fossil record of Africa and Asia by the middle Eocene,
about 45 Ma. Here, we report the discovery of an early Eocene eosimiid anthropoid primate …

Variation in relative brain size is commonly interpreted as the result of selection on neuronal
capacity. However, this approach ignores that relative brain size is also linked to another …

Activity patterns have profound implications on primates' morphology, physiology, and
behavior and have likely driven their diversification. The last common ancestor of extant …