Afro-Arabian mammalian communities underwent a marked transition near the
Oligocene/Miocene boundary at approximately 24 million years (Myr) ago. Although it is well …

Middle Pliocene hominin species diversity has been a subject of debate over the past two
decades, particularly after the naming of Australopithecus bahrelghazali and Kenyanthropus …

The palaeobiological record of 12 million to 7 million years ago (Ma) is crucial to the
elucidation of African ape and human origins, but few fossil assemblages of this period have …

Adapiform or 'adapoid'primates first appear in the fossil record in the earliest Eocene epoch
(∼ 55 million years (Myr) ago), and were common components of Palaeogene primate …

With the discovery of Ardipithecus, Orrorin and Sahelanthropus,,,,,,, our knowledge of
hominid evolution before the emergence of Pliocene species of Australopithecus, has …

Abstract THE Hadar Formation in Ethiopia is a prolific source of Pliocene Hominidae
attributed to the species Australopithecus afarensis 1. Since 1990, three seasons of field …

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Reconstructing the early evolutionary history of anthropoid primates is hindered by a lack of
consensus on both the timing and biogeography of anthropoid origins,,. Some prefer an …

Pleistocene hominin dispersals out of, and back into, Africa necessarily involved traversing
the diverse and often challenging environments of Southwest Asia 1, 2, 3, 4. Archaeological …