BACKGROUND Ever since the writings of Darwin and Huxley, humans' place in nature
relative to apes (nonhuman hominoids) and the geographic origins of the human lineage …

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

Six extant species of non-human great apes are currently recognized: Sumatran and
Bornean orangutans, eastern and western gorillas, and chimpanzees and bonobos [1] …

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 …

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

The systematic status of the small-bodied catarrhine primate Pliobates cataloniae, from the
Miocene (11.6 Ma) of Spain, is controversial because it displays a mosaic of primitive and …

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

The evolutionary history of extant hominoids (humans and apes) remains poorly understood.
The African fossil record during the crucial time period, the Miocene epoch, largely …

To To make inferences and test hypotheses about why the human lineage diverged from the
African great apes (AGAs), we address three fundamental questions concerning the last …

Abstract The Abocador de Can Mata (ACM) composite stratigraphic sequence (els Hostalets
de Pierola, Vallès-Penedès Basin, NE Iberian Peninsula) has yielded a diverse primate …