The peculiar mammalian fauna that inhabited Afro‐Arabia during the Paleogene first came
to the attention of the scientific community in the early part of the twentieth century, when …

MicroComputed Tomography has become the gold standard for studying 3D microscopic
structures nondestructively, and this book provides up-to-date coverage of the modality. The …

There is a well‐established allometric relationship between brain and body mass in
mammals. Deviation of relatively increased brain size from this pattern appears to coincide …

Kinship, religion, and economy were not" natural" to humans, nor to species of apes that had
to survive on the African savanna. Society from its very beginnings involved an uneasy …

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 …

The hominin fossil record documents a history of critical evolutionary events that have
ultimately shaped and defined what it means to be human, including the origins of …

It is widely understood that Hominoidea (apes and humans) and Cercopithecoidea (Old
World monkeys) have a common ancestry as Catarrhini deeply rooted in Afro-Arabia,,,. The …

Dolichocebus is known from the type skull encased in a concretion, numerous isolated teeth,
parts of two mandibles, and a talus. The specimens come from the Trelew Member (early …

INTRODUCTION Reconstructing the ancestral morphotype from which extant hominoids
(apes and humans) evolved is complicated by the mosaic nature of ape evolution, the …

We describe a virtual endocast produced from ultra high resolution X-ray computed
tomography (CT) data for the microsyopid, Microsyops annectens (middle Eocene …