Everyone who has ever experienced a head cold is familiar with the paranasal sinuses, the
bony hollows above and beside the nasal cavity that contribute, sometimes painfully, to …

What do functionally important DNA sites, those scrutinized and shaped by natural selection,
tell us about the place of humans in evolution? Here we compare≈ 90 kb of coding DNA …

Hominoids, or taxa identified as hominoids, are known from much of Africa, Asia, and
Europe since the Late Oligocene. The earliest such taxa, from Africa, resemble extant …

Catarrhine primates of modern aspect closely related to extant hominoids and
cercopithecoids originated in Afro-Arabia during the late Oligocene (Harrison, 1982, 1987 …

For more than 80 years, Proconsul has held a pivotal position in interpretations of catarrhine
evolution and hominoid diversification in East Africa. The majority of what we 'know'about …

Several lines of indirect evidence suggest that hominoids (apes and humans) and
cercopithecoids (Old World monkeys) diverged around 23–25 Mya. Importantly, although …

For the one-term course in human evolution, paleoanthropology, or fossil hominins taught at
the junior/senior level in departments of anthropology or biology. This new edition provides …

This special issue of the Anatomical Record explores the presence and diversity of
paranasal sinuses in distinct vertebrate groups. The following topics are addressed in …

The identity and taxonomic distribution of paranasal sinuses among living platyrrhines has
remained a contentious issue (eg, Cave [1967] Am J Phys Anthropol 26: 277–288 vs …

Darwin famously opined that the most likely place of origin of the common ancestor of
African apes and humans is Africa, given the distribution of its living descendents. But it is …