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

Beim Studium der jüngeren Kontroversen über den Darwinismus fiel mir wiederholt auf, das
sie falsche Darstellungen enthielten, so als würde es sich um irgendetwas Umfassenderes …

Homoplasy has been a prominent issue in primate systematics and phylogeny for as long as
people have been studying human evolution. In the past, homoplasy, in the form of parallel …

Fossils provide our only direct window into evolutionary events in the distant past.
Incorporating them into phylogenetic hypotheses of living clades can help time-calibrate …

Cladistics, a method used to create a nested series of taxa based on homologous characters
shared only by two or more taxa and their immediate common ancestor, offers a means of …

Lower Cretaceous fossils from central Niger document the succession of sauropod
dinosaurs on Africa as it drifted into geographic isolation. A new broad-toothed genus of …

Vertebrate tracks are a unique, abundant source of fossil data that supplements the skeletal
record in many ways. However, the utility of ichnofossil data depends on how specifically the …

An ideographic concept of character is indispensable to phylogenetic inference. Hennig
proposed that characters be conceptualized as “transformation series”, a proposal that is …

Much of what we are comes from our ancestors. Through cultural and biological inheritance
mechanisms, our genetic composition, instructions for constructing artifacts, the structure …

The incorporation of stratigraphic data into phylogenetic analysis has a long history of
debate but is not currently standard practice for paleontologists. Bayesian tip-dated (or …