Winner, 2010 PROSE Award for Excellence in the Biological Sciences. Professional and
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The supraordinal mammalian clade Afrotheria was first recognized in its entirety based on
DNA analysis dating to the mid-1990s. Since then, this “African clade”, which includes …

Abstract Africa, India and Madagascar were once part of the supercontinent of Gondwana.
This land mass began to fragment approx. 170 million years ago, and by 83 million years, all …

Renewed investigations at Laetoli in northern Tanzania have led to the recovery of a
number of new fossil hominins. A lower canine and a mandibular fragment from the Upper …

The systematics of the order Tubulidentata is poorly known. Its phylogeny has never been
thoroughly analysed and only a single review has ever been performed, which was over 30 …

Here we report on a new fossil locality, Şerefköy-2, from the Yatağan Basin of southwestern
Turkey that preserves a well-sampled, abundant, and diverse mammal fauna. Indeed, after …

Characterizing the paleoenvironmental context of the first hominids is a key issue for
understanding their behavioral and morphological evolution. The present study aims at …

The Neogene African fossil record of two fishes, ie Semlikiichthys (Perciformes indet.) and
Calarius (Siluriformes, Ariidae) is reviewed including new material from Chadian outcrops …

The ear region of the aardvark, Orycteropus afer (Pallas, 1766), including the auditory
ossicles, is described and illustrated in detail based on five museum specimens (one from …

Shortly after the death of his coauthor, CF Sonntag, Sir Wilfrid Le Gros Clark published a
collaborative monograph on the anatomy and relationships of the aardvark, Orycteropus afer …