Nonhuman primates, our closest biological relatives, play important roles in the livelihoods,
cultures, and religions of many societies and offer unique insights into human evolution …

We live in inflationary times. A quarter of a century ago, cigarettes were about
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Winner, 2010 PROSE Award for Excellence in the Biological Sciences. Professional and
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Continuous cell lines that originate from mammalian tissues serve as not only invaluable
tools for life sciences, but also important animal cell substrates for the production of various …

The Eastern Arc Mountains are renown in Africa for high concentrations of endemic species
of animals and plants. Thirteen separate mountain blocks comprise the Eastern Arc …

This comprehensive introductory text integrates evolutionary, ecological, and demographic
perspectives with new results from field studies and contemporary noninvasive molecular …

Recent studies suggest that closely related species can accumulate substantial genetic and
phenotypic differences despite ongoing gene flow, thus challenging traditional ideas …

Guenons (tribe Cercopithecini) are one of the most diverse groups of primates. They occupy
all of sub-Saharan Africa and show great variation in ecology, behavior, and morphology …

How populations diverge and give rise to distinct species remains a fundamental question in
evolutionary biology, with important implications for a wide range of fields, from conservation …

Background Baboons of the genus Papio are distributed over wide ranges of Africa and
even colonized parts of the Arabian Peninsula. Traditionally, five phenotypically distinct …