Infanticide among animals is a widespread phenomenon with no unitary explanation.
Although the detrimental outcome for the infant is fairly constant, individuals responsible for …

Entomophagy is widespread among nonhuman primates and is common among many
human communities. However, the extent and patterns of entomophagy vary substantially …

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Extracting nutrients is of upmost importance to the survival of any individual or species. One
of the distinguishing characteristics of the order Primates is the vast range of nutritional …

Dental Functional Morphology offers an alternative to the received wisdom that teeth merely
crush, cut, shear or grind food and shows how teeth adapt to diet. Providing an analysis of …

In order to understand dietary differentiation among frugivorous primates with simple
stomachs, we present the first comparison of plant diets between chimpanzees and …

Tooth size varies exponentially with body weight in primates. Logarithmic transformation of
tooth crown area and body weight yields a linear model of slope 0.67 as an isometric …

A stress analysis of the primate mandible suggests that vertically deep jaws in the molar
region are usually an adaptation to counter increased sagittal bending stress about the …

Molar enamel is thicker among frugivorous extant Old World monkeys and apes than among
their folivorous close relatives. Furthermore, species that have the thickest molar enamel …

The adaptive radiation of modern New World monkeys unfolded as the major lineages
diversified within different dietary‐adaptive zones predicated upon a fundamentally …