The vertical‐climbing account of the evolution of locomotor behavior and morphology in
hominid ancestry is reexamined in light of recent behavioral, anatomical, and …

Between 10 and 20 million years ago, a variety of hominoid primates lived in Africa, Europe
and Asia. The question of which of these, if any, lie closest to the ancestries of humans and …

Based on our knowledge of locomotor biomechanics and ecology we predict the locomotion
and posture of the last common ancestors of (a) great and lesser apes and their close fossil …

A fundamentally new psychology related to the ability to conceive of limited aspects of the
self may have envolved in the ancestor of the great ape/human clade. Existing models of the …

Bipedal locomotion is one of the key adaptations that define the hominin clade. Evidence of
bipedalism is known from postcranial remains of late Miocene hominins as early as 6 million …

Extant apes (Primates: Hominoidea) are the relics of a group that was much more diverse in
the past. They originated in Africa around the Oligocene/Miocene boundary, but by the …

Hominoids, or taxa identified as hominoids, are known from much of Africa, Asia, and
Europe since the Late Oligocene. The earliest such taxa, from Africa, resemble extant …

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

Paleontologists have identified ape-like primates from the middle and late Miocene of
Europe for more than a century, and new finds continue to improve the record of these …

Abstract In 1871, Darwin famously opined,“In each great region of the world the living
mammals are closely related to the extinct species of the same region. It is therefore …