The Vertebrata is one of the most speciose groups of animals, comprising more than 58,000 living species. This book provides a detailed account on the comparative anatomy …
As recently stressed by the philosopher of science Leandro Assis, a decline in the number of phylogenetic hypotheses based on morphological evidence has become a pronounced …
R Diogo, B Wood - Journal of Anatomy, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Apart from molecular data, nearly all the evidence used to study primate relationships comes from hard tissues. Here, we provide details of the first parsimony and Bayesian cladistic …
R Diogo, BG Richmond, B Wood - Journal of human evolution, 2012 - Elsevier
In this paper, we explore how the results of a primate-wide higher-level phylogenetic analysis of muscle characters can improve our understanding of the evolution and …
Modern humans possess a highly derived thumb that is robust and long relative to the other digits, with enhanced pollical musculature compared with extant apes. Researchers have …
Chordates comprise lampreys, hagfishes, jawed fishes, and tetrapods, plus a variety of more unfamiliar and crucially important non-vertebrate animal lineages, such as lancelets and sea …
R Diogo - Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Just-so stories are prominent in human evolution literature because of our tendency to create simple progressionist narratives about our “special” place in nature, despite the fact …
BG Richmond, NT Roach, KR Ostrofsky - The evolution of the primate …, 2016 - Springer
Over the course of early hominin evolution, two fundamental changes in hand function occurred: the loss of a locomotor role and unparalleled intensification of manipulation, tool …
P Lemelin, R Diogo - The evolution of the primate hand: Anatomical …, 2016 - Springer
The musculature responsible for movement of the hand has been a topic of choice among anatomists, biological anthropologists, clinicians, and other students of the human body …