The rich diversity of morphology and behavior displayed across primate species provides an
informative context in which to study the impact of genomic diversity on fundamental …

The peculiar mammalian fauna that inhabited Afro‐Arabia during the Paleogene first came
to the attention of the scientific community in the early part of the twentieth century, when …

The long-term isolation of South America during most of the Cenozoic produced a highly
peculiar terrestrial vertebrate biota, with a wide array of mammal groups, among which …

The platyrrhine primates, or New World monkeys, are immigrant mammals whose fossil
record comes from Tertiary and Quaternary sediments of South America and the Caribbean …

Recent interest in the origins and subsequent evolution of the hepatitis B virus (HBV) has
strengthened with the discovery of ancient HBV sequences in fossilized remains of humans …

Recent fossil discoveries in Western Amazonia revealed that two distinct anthropoid primate
clades of African origin colonized South America near the Eocene/Oligocene transition (ca …

Fossil evidence indicates that numerous catarrhine clades of African origin expanded or
shifted their ranges into Eurasia, among them macaques Macaca Lacépède, 1799 …

Diurnal light-dark cycle resets the master clock, while timed food intake is another potent
synchronizer of peripheral clocks in mammals. As the largest metabolic organ, the liver …

Profound environmental and faunal changes are associated with climatic deterioration
during the Eocene-Oligocene transition (EOT) roughly 34 million years ago. Reconstructing …

Abstract New World Monkeys (NWM)(platyrrhines) are one of the most diverse groups of
primates, occupying today a wide range of ecosystems in the American tropics and …