Recent fossil discoveries have greatly increased our knowledge of the morphology and
diversity of early Anthropoidea, the suborder to which humans belong. Phylogenetic …

▪ Abstract Anthropoidea is a clade of primates including Platyrrhini and Catarrhini. Definitive
fossil anthropoids include the early Oligocene Propliopithecidae and the late Eocene–early …

Winner, 2010 PROSE Award for Excellence in the Biological Sciences. Professional and
Scholarly Publishing division of the Association of American Publishers In this unique book …

Abstract The Janzen–Connell hypothesis, proposes that host-specific, distance-and/or
density-dependent predators and herbivores maintain high tree diversity in tropical forests …

Mammals are the dominant large animals of today, occurring in virtually every environment.
This book is an account of the remarkable 320 million year long fossil record that documents …

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

In the tradition of GG Simpson's classic work, Kenneth D. Rose's The Beginning of the Age of
Mammals analyzes the events that occurred directly before and after the mysterious KT …

Reconstructing the earliest phases of primate evolution has been impeded by gaps in the
fossil record, so that disagreements persist regarding the palaeobiology and phylogenetic …

Studies of mammalian evolution frequently use data derived from the dentition,,,. Dental
characters are particularly central for inferring phylogenetic relationships of fossil taxa,,,, of …

Recent fossil discoveries in Western Amazonia revealed that two distinct anthropoid primate
clades of African origin colonized South America near the Eocene/Oligocene transition (ca …