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Elwyn L. Simons
Researcher at Duke University
Publications - 188
Citations - 8104
Elwyn L. Simons is an academic researcher from Duke University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Lemur & Aegyptopithecus. The author has an hindex of 52, co-authored 186 publications receiving 7734 citations. Previous affiliations of Elwyn L. Simons include Stony Brook University & United States Geological Survey.
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Fossil evidence for an ancient divergence of lorises and galagos
TL;DR: The first demonstrable crown strepsirrhines from the Afro-Arabian Palaeogene are described—a galagid and a possible lorisid from the late middle Eocene of Egypt, the latter of which provides the earliest fossil evidence for the distinctive strepsIRrhine toothcomb.
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PRELIMINARY REVISION OF THE DRYOPITHECINAE (PONGIDAE, ANTHROPOIDEA) (Part 1 of 4)
Elwyn L. Simons,D.R. Pilbeam +1 more
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Hind Limbs of Eocene Basilosaurus: Evidence of Feet in Whales
TL;DR: New specimens of middle Eocene Basilosaurus isis from Egypt include the first functional pelvic limb and foot bones known in Cetacea, corroborating the intermediate evolutionary position of archaeocetes between generalized Paleocene land mammals that used hind limbs in locomotion and Oligocene-to- Recent whales that lack functional pelvic limbs.
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Primate Phylogeny: Morphological vs Molecular Results
TL;DR: This study confirms that, overall, phylogenetic reconstructions of Primates, and consequently their classifications, are more similar than dissimilar, and supports the Homo-Pan clade, although with characters not as strong as for other clades.
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Basal Anthropoids from Egypt and the Antiquity of Africa's Higher Primate Radiation
Erik R. Seiffert,Elwyn L. Simons,William C. Clyde,James B. Rossie,Yousry Attia,Thomas M. Bown,Prithijit S. Chatrath,Mark E. Mathison +7 more
TL;DR: Biretia is unique among early anthropoids in exhibiting evidence for nocturnality, but derived dental features shared with younger parapithecids draw this genus, and possibly >45-million-year-old Algeripithecus, into a morphologically and behaviorally diverse parapithecoid clade of great antiquity.