Apes, members of the superfamily Hominoidea, possess a distinctive suite of anatomical
and behavioral characters which appear to have evolved relatively late and relatively …

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

The fossil record suggests a rapid radiation of placental mammals following the Cretaceous–
Paleogene (K–Pg) mass extinction 65 million years ago (Ma); nevertheless, molecular time …

Phylogenetic relationships, divergence times, and patterns of biogeographic descent among
primate species are both complex and contentious. Here, we generate a robust molecular …

Primates have long been a test case for the development of phylogenetic methods for
divergence time estimation. Despite a large number of studies, however, the timing of …

In How Humans Cooperate, Richard E. Blanton and Lane F. Fargher take a new approach to
investigating human cooperation, developed from the vantage point of an" anthropological …

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 …

Quantifying speciation times during human evolution is fundamental as it provides a
timescale to test for the correlation between key evolutionary transitions and extrinsic factors …

Natural selection, as both a process and a scientific concept, is eloquently simple.
Unfortunately, this simplicity sometimes belies Darwin's broader view of evolution as a …