Molecular evidence indicates that the last common ancestor of the genus Pan and the
hominin clade existed between 8 and 4 million years ago (Ma). The current fossil record …

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 …

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 …

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

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 …

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 …

Pierolapithecus catalaunicus (~ 12 million years ago, northeastern Spain) is key to
understanding the mosaic nature of hominid (great ape and human) evolution. Notably, its …

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 …

Since the first discovery of human fossils in the mid‐19th century, two subjects—our
phylogenetic relationship to living and fossil apes and the ancestral locomotor behaviors …

Abstract A well‐preserved 11.8‐million‐years‐old lower face attributed to the seminal taxon
Dryopithecus fontani (Primates, Hominidae) from the Catalan site ACM/C3‐Ae of the …