▪ Abstract Anthropoidea is a clade of primates including Platyrrhini and Catarrhini. Definitive
fossil anthropoids include the early Oligocene Propliopithecidae and the late Eocene–early …

The peculiar mammalian fauna that inhabited Afro‐Arabia during the Paleogene first came
to the attention of the scientific community in the early part of the twentieth century, when …

Phylogenetic relationships, divergence times, and patterns of biogeographic descent among
primate species are both complex and contentious. Here, we generate a robust molecular …

Abstract The Janzen–Connell hypothesis, proposes that host-specific, distance-and/or
density-dependent predators and herbivores maintain high tree diversity in tropical forests …

In the tradition of GG Simpson's classic work, Kenneth D. Rose's The Beginning of the Age of
Mammals analyzes the events that occurred directly before and after the mysterious KT …

Recent fossil discoveries in Western Amazonia revealed that two distinct anthropoid primate
clades of African origin colonized South America near the Eocene/Oligocene transition (ca …

Platyrrhine primates and caviomorph rodents are clades of mammals that colonized South
America during its period of isolation from the other continents, between 100 and 3 million …

The geological history of the Burmese subduction margin, where India obliquely subducts
below Indochina, remains poorly documented although it is key to deciphering geodynamic …

Diurnal light-dark cycle resets the master clock, while timed food intake is another potent
synchronizer of peripheral clocks in mammals. As the largest metabolic organ, the liver …

Profound environmental and faunal changes are associated with climatic deterioration
during the Eocene-Oligocene transition (EOT) roughly 34 million years ago. Reconstructing …