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 …

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 updated guide to the fundamental concepts, techniques and applications of synchrotron
radiation and its applications in this rapidly develo** field Synchrotron light is recognized …

Vertebrate palaeontology is a lively field, with new discoveries reported every week... and
not only dinosaurs! This new edition reflects the international scope of vertebrate …

Dental Functional Morphology offers an alternative to the received wisdom that teeth merely
crush, cut, shear or grind food and shows how teeth adapt to diet. Providing an analysis of …

Scientific techniques developed in materials science offer invaluable information to
archaeology, art history, and conservation. A rapidly growing number of innovative methods …

Paleontologists are quite recent newcomers among the users of X-ray synchrotron imaging
techniques at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF). Studies of the external …

Humans have an unusual life history, with an early weaning age, long childhood, late first
reproduction, short interbirth intervals, and long lifespan. In contrast, great apes wean later …

Strict anaerobes cannot grow in the presence of greater than 5 µ M dissolved oxygen.
Despite this growth inhibition, many strict anaerobes of the Bacteroides class of eubacteria …

We search the complete orangutan genome for regions where humans are more closely
related to orangutans than to chimpanzees due to incomplete lineage sorting (ILS) in the …