Inferring the mammal tree: species-level sets of phylogenies for questions in ecology, evolution, and conservation

NS Upham, JA Esselstyn, W Jetz - PLoS biology, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Big, time-scaled phylogenies are fundamental to connecting evolutionary processes to
modern biodiversity patterns. Yet inferring reliable phylogenetic trees for thousands of …

[BOOK][B] Primate adaptation and evolution

JG Fleagle, AL Baden, CC Gilbert - 2024 - books.google.com
Primate Adaptation and Evolution, Fourth Edition provides key features of extant families
and references to more detailed texts. The book sets the scene and creates space for a …

Resolving the relationships of Paleocene placental mammals

TJD Halliday, P Upchurch, A Goswami - Biological Reviews, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
ABSTRACT The 'Age of Mammals' began in the Paleocene epoch, the 10 million year
interval immediately following the Cretaceous–Palaeogene mass extinction. The apparently …

The evolutionary radiation of plesiadapiforms

MT Silcox, JI Bloch, DM Boyer… - … : Issues, News, and …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Very shortly after the disappearance of the non‐avian dinosaurs, the first mammals that had
features similar to those of primates started appearing. These first primitive forms went on to …

Using phylogenomic data to explore the effects of relaxed clocks and calibration strategies on divergence time estimation: primates as a test case

MD Reis, GF Gunnell, J Barba-Montoya… - Systematic …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Primates have long been a test case for the development of phylogenetic methods for
divergence time estimation. Despite a large number of studies, however, the timing of …

[BOOK][B] The indigenous Paleolithic of the western Hemisphere

PFC Steeves - 2021 - books.google.com
2022 Choice Outstanding Academic Title The Indigenous Paleolithic of the Western
Hemisphere is a reclaimed history of the deep past of Indigenous people in North and South …

[BOOK][B] Phylonyms: a companion to the PhyloCode

K de Queiroz, P Cantino, J Gauthier - 2020 - taylorfrancis.com
Phylonyms is an implementation of PhyloCode, which is a set of principles, rules, and
recommendations governing phylogenetic nomenclature. Nearly 300 clades-lineages of …

New mammals from the Naskal intertrappean site and the age of India's earliest eutherians

GPW Mantilla, PR Renne, B Samant… - Palaeogeography …, 2022 - Elsevier
The first Cretaceous mammals described from India were recovered from the Naskal locality,
on the southeastern edge of the Deccan Traps Volcanic Province (DTVP), where it is …

Genomic analysis reveals hidden biodiversity within colugos, the sister group to primates

VC Mason, G Li, P Minx, J Schmitz, G Churakov… - Science …, 2016 - science.org
Colugos are among the most poorly studied mammals despite their centrality to resolving
supraordinal primate relationships. Two described species of these gliding mammals are the …

Primate social organization evolved from a flexible pair-living ancestor

CA Olivier, JS Martin, C Pilisi… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - National Acad Sciences
Explaining the evolution of primate social organization has been fundamental to understand
human sociality and social evolution more broadly. It has often been suggested that the …