Accurate divergence date estimates improve scenarios of primate evolutionary history and
aid in interpretation of the natural history of disease-causing agents. While molecule-based …

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 …

Written by leading theorists and empirical researchers, this book presents new ways of
addressing the old question: Why did religion first emerge and then continue to evolve in all …

The Asian apes, more than any other, are restricted to an arboreal habitat. They are
consequently an important model in the interpretation of the morphological commonalities of …

Hominin evolutionary history is characterized by regular dispersals, cycles of colonization,
and entry into novel environments. This article considers the relationship between such …

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 …

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 …

Abstract Currently restricted to Southeast Asia and Africa, extant hominoids are the remnants
of a group that was much more diverse during the Miocene. Apes initially diversified in Africa …

The split of our own clade from the Panini is undocumented in the fossil record. To fill this
gap we investigated the dentognathic morphology of Graecopithecus freybergi from Pyrgos …