Based on our knowledge of locomotor biomechanics and ecology we predict the locomotion
and posture of the last common ancestors of (a) great and lesser apes and their close fossil …

Hominoids diverged from cercopithecoids during the Oligocene in Afro-Arabia, initially
radiating in that continent and subsequently dispersing into Eurasia. From the Late Miocene …

Genomic comparisons have established the chimpanzee and bonobo as our closest living
relatives. However, the intricacies of gene regulation and expression caution against the use …

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 …

Extant apes (Primates: Hominoidea) are the relics of a group that was much more diverse in
the past. They originated in Africa around the Oligocene/Miocene boundary, but by the …

The postcranial axial skeleton exhibits considerable morphological and functional diversity
among living primates. Particularly striking are the derived features in hominoids that …

Until recently, the last common ancestor of African apes and humans was presumed to
resemble living chimpanzees and bonobos. This was frequently extended to their locomotor …

Within‐species phenotypic variation is the raw material on which natural selection acts to
shape evolutionary change, and understanding more about the developmental genetics of …

Abstract A well‐preserved 11.8‐million‐years‐old lower face attributed to the seminal taxon
Dryopithecus fontani (Primates, Hominidae) from the Catalan site ACM/C3‐Ae of the …

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 …