Julien Benoit

TL;DR: This review document anatomical differences between extant ape and human foot bones, and comprehensively examine the hominin foot fossil record, and finds strong evidence for mosaic evolution of the foot, and a variety of anatomically and functionally distinct foot forms as bipedal locomotion evolved.

TL;DR: The presence of a true infraorbital canal in Prozostrodontia suggests that a motile rhinarium and maxillary vibrissae were present in their forerunners, and the complete ossification of the parietal fontanelle and the development of the cerebellum in Probainognathia may be pleiotropically linked to the appearance of mammary glands and having body hair coverage.

TL;DR: X-ray microtomography is used to investigate a newly discovered sirenian petrosal from the Eocene of Tunisia, which represents the oldest occurrence of sirenians in Africa and supports their African origin.

TL;DR: The shape of the cochlea suggests that Diacodexis was a high‐frequency hearing specialist, with a high low‐ frequencies hearing limit, and the results are congruent with the postcranial functional analysis for this extinct taxon.

TL;DR: Synchrotron scanning of the tapinocephalid Moschops capensis reveals, for the first time, numerous anatomical adaptations of the central nervous system related to this combative behaviour.