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Primate origins: plugging the gaps

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Established theories and views regarding the course and timing of the evolution of early primates are being challenged by newly discovered fossil primate specimens. The questions raised by these recent discoveries mirror the many problems created by low sampling levels of the primate fossil record, such as theoretical uncertainties and underestimation of times of primate origin. The discoveries, for instance, have raised the possibility of links between certain Palaeocene Pleisadapiformes genera and Dermoptera. Dental evidence of the genus Algeripithecus also increased the age of earliest simians by 10 million years.

Author: Martin, Robert D.
Publisher: Macmillan Publishing Ltd.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 1993
Discovery and exploration, Primates, Primates, Fossil, Fossil primates

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Ant soldiers are not modified queens

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Baroni Urbani and L. Passera's assumption that ant soldiers evolved as a class independent workers from the queen ant was erroneous. Urbani and Passera based their conclusions on comparative analysis of Camponotus, Pheidole and Zacryptocerus ants. However, the similarity of ant soldiers and queen does not necessarily indicate the queen-based origin of soldiers. Furthermore, large soldier ants were formed by the evolution of polymorphic worker ants.

Author: Ward, Philip S.
Publisher: Macmillan Publishing Ltd.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 1997
Physiological aspects, Genetic aspects, Genetic polymorphisms, Ants, Insect populations

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Hybrid speciation

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The role of hybridization in animal evolution and the new examples where hybridization facilitates speciation and adaptive radiation in animals, as well as plants, are discussed. Researchers have showed that hybrid speciation is more common in plants and animals.

Author: Mallet, James
Publisher: Macmillan Publishing Ltd.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 2007
Hybridization, Speciation

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Subjects list: Analysis, Evolution (Biology), Evolution
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