Evolutionary trends among mammals over the past 66 Myr have been profoundly influenced
by changing climates, in turn the result of tectonic events. The global tropical forest type of …

One way to build larger, more comprehensive phylogenies is to combine the vast amount of
phylogenetic information already available. We review the two main strategies for …

Embracing more than 5,000 genera, distributed in 425 families and 46 orders, Malcolm C.
McKenna and Susan K. Bell's Classification of Mammals is the most comprehensive work to …

Background Although it has proven to be an important foundation for investigations of
carnivoran ecology, biology and evolution, the complete species-level supertree for …

Man the Hunted argues that primates, including the earliest members of the human family,
have evolved as the prey of any number of predators, including wild cats and dogs, hyenas …

The habitual consumption of large-animal resources (eg, similar sized or larger than the
consumer) separates human and nonhuman primate behavior. Flaked stone tool use …

The fossil record of the order Carnivora extends back at least 60 million years and
documents a remarkable history of adaptive radiation characterized by the repeated …

The giant, short-faced hyena Pachycrocuta brevirostris was the largest Hyaenidae ever
existed and the one that perfectly embodied the distinctive bone-cracking adaptations of this …

▪ Abstract The history of carnivorous mammals is characterized by a series of rise-and-fall
patterns of diversification in which declining clades are replaced by phylogenetically distinct …

This paper reviews the extensive carnivoran fauna of Laetoli on the basis of collections
housed in Berlin, London, Nairobi, and Dar es Salaam. Members of the Carnivora are …