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 …

The search for the earliest fossil evidence of the human lineage has been concentrated in
East Africa. Here we report the discovery of six hominid specimens from Chad, central Africa …

The book is the most in-depth account of the fossil skull anatomy and evolutionary
significance of the 3.6-3.0 million year old early human species Australopithecus afarensis …

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 …

Despite intensive study, many aspects of the evolutionary history of great apes and humans
(Hominidae) are not well understood. In particular, the phylogenetic relationships of many …

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 …

Dryopithecus has been known longer than most fossil primate taxa, but until recently was
only represented by fragmentary jaws and isolated teeth. New specimens, including …

The preceding chapters of this volume have described a number of different approaches
and solutions to the interpretation of hominoid evolutionary history. Given the breadth of …

This study presents a new, reliable method of dental microwear analysis, which is applied to
one of the largest published primate databases and to a Miocene hominoid, Ouranopithecus …