Nature Communications (Nov 2019)

Early anthropoid femora reveal divergent adaptive trajectories in catarrhine hind-limb evolution

  • Sergio Almécija,
  • Melissa Tallman,
  • Hesham M. Sallam,
  • John G. Fleagle,
  • Ashley S. Hammond,
  • Erik R. Seiffert

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12742-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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The proximal femur is key for understanding locomotion in primates. Here, the authors analyze the evolution of the proximal femur in catarrhines, including a new Aegyptopithecus fossil, and suggest that Old World monkeys and hominoids diverged from an ancestral state similar to Aegyptopithecus.