Sexual dimorphism is a pervasive phenomenon among anthropoid primates. Comparative
analyses over the past 30 years have greatly expanded our understanding of both variation …

Body weight dimorphism in anthropoid primates has been thought to be a consequence of
sexual selection resulting from male‐male competition for access to mates. However, while …

Data are presented on adult body mass for 230 of 249 primate species, based on a review of
the literature and previously unpublished data. The issues involved in collecting data on …

The single most important difference between the sexes is the difference in their investment
in offspring. The general rule is this: females do all of the investing; males do none of …

The last decade's lemur research includes successes in discovering new living and extinct
species and learning about the distribution, biogeography, physiology, behavior, and …

The mammals that inhabit Madagascar are among the most extraordinary in the world. This
portable guide offers a full survey and classification of all the Malagasy mammals, both …

There is considerable debate over the level of size dimorphism and inferred social behavior
of Australopithecus afarensis. Most previous studies have analyzed size variation in single …

Recent results have suggested that the biomass of folivorous arboreal primates per unit area
in Africa and Asia is positively correlated with the average quality of leaves, expressed as …

Neotropical primates show a remarkable range in body size, spanning two orders of
magnitude from the tiny pygmy marmosets (100 g) to the woolly spider monkeys (11,000+ g) …

We use complete species–level phylogenies of extant Carnivora and Primates to perform
the first thorough phylogenetic tests, in mammals, of the hypothesis that small body size is …