Erik R Seiffert
Erik R Seiffert
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 Andrews1 and Schlosser2 published their landmark descripti...
Species diversity and postcranial anatomy of eocene primates from Shanghuang, China [0.03%]
中国上黄始新世灵长类动物的种类多样性及其后颅骨骼解剖学特征
Daniel L Gebo,Marian Dagosto,Xijun Ni et al.
Daniel L Gebo et al.
The middle Eocene Shanghuang fissure-fillings, located in southern Jiangsu Province in China near the coastal city of Shanghai (Fig. 1), contain a remarkably diverse array of fossil primates that provide a unique window into the complex rol...
Ian Tattersall
Ian Tattersall
Matt Cartmill
Matt Cartmill
When people learn that I study human evolution and we start talking about it, they sometimes ask me, "How long ago did the first humans live?" My answer is usually another question: "What do you mean by 'humans'?" That response seems as baf...
John G Fleagle
John G Fleagle
Joanna M Setchell
Joanna M Setchell
Functionally referential signals: a promising paradigm whose time has passed [0.03%]
功能性的信号参考：一个即将到来的有希望的研究范式
Brandon C Wheeler,Julia Fischer
Brandon C Wheeler
Finding the evolutionary origins of human language in the communication systems of our closest living relatives has, for the last several decades, been a major goal of many in the field of animal communication generally and primate communic...
James M Calcagno,Agustín Fuentes
James M Calcagno
Today, scholars from numerous and highly diverse fields are not only addressing the question of what makes us human, but also seeking input from other disciplines to inform their answers to this fundamental issue. However, for the most part...
Karen L Baab,Kieran P McNulty,F James Rohlf
Karen L Baab
Study of morphological form is fundamental to the discipline of paleoanthropology. The size and shape of our ancestors' anatomical features have long been the focus of research on hominin systematics, phylogeny, functional morphology, ontog...