Teeth are one of the best preserved and most commonly recovered elements in primate
fossil assemblages. Taxonomic, functional, and phylogenetic hypotheses often rely on …

Fundamental disagreements remain regarding the relative importance of climate change
and human activities as triggers for Madagascar's Holocene megafaunal extinction. We use …

Weaning conflict may represent an evolutionary conflict of interest between parent and
offspring, an honest signal of need on the part of a weanling, or both. Accentuated lines …

There are two possible approaches to understanding natural and human-induced changes
in the primate communities of Madagascar. One is to begin with present-day and recent …

The primate community in Madagascar has changed dramatically since people arrived just
over two millennia ago (Burney et al., 2004). At least nine genera and up to sixteen species …

Although much is known about the anatomy of adult primates, particularly chimpanzees, the
same cannot be said for the anatomy of young primates, especially non-hominoid primates …

Studies of primate life history variation are constrained by the fact that all large‐bodied
extant primates are haplorhines. However, large‐bodied strepsirrhines recently existed. If …

Nineteenth century naturalist-explorer Alfred Grandidier was perhaps the first European to
gaze upon the ghost bones of Madagascar. The Malagasy knew them well: some belonged …

The chronology of dental development and life history of primitive catarrhines provides a
crucial comparative framework for understanding the evolution of hominoids and Old World …

The fossil 'monkey lemur'Hadropithecus stenognathus has long excited palaeontologists
because its skull bears an astonishing resemblance to those of robust australopiths, an …