The rich diversity of morphology and behavior displayed across primate species provides an
informative context in which to study the impact of genomic diversity on fundamental …

To discover interordinal relationships of living and fossil placental mammals and the time of
origin of placentals relative to the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) boundary, we scored 4541 …

Our ability to correlate biological evolution with climate change, geological evolution, and
other historical patterns is essential to understanding the processes that shape biodiversity …

The reconstruction of the Tree of Life has relied almost entirely on concatenation methods,
which do not accommodate gene tree heterogeneity, a property that simulations and theory …

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 …

Vertebrate palaeontology is a lively field, with new discoveries reported every week... and
not only dinosaurs! This new edition reflects the international scope of vertebrate …

Dugongs and manatees, the only fully aquatic herbivorous mammals, live in the coastal
waters, rivers and lakes of more than 80 subtropical and tropical countries. Symbols of fierce …

No large group of recently extinct placental mammals remains as evolutionarily cryptic as
the approximately 280 genera grouped as 'South American native ungulates'. To Charles …

The timing of the diversification of placental mammals relative to the Cretaceous–Paleogene
(KPg) boundary mass extinction remains highly controversial. In particular, there have been …

Vampire bats (Desmodus rotundus) are obligate blood feeders that have evolved
specialized systems to suit their sanguinary lifestyle,,. Chief among such adaptations is the …