Luis D. Verde Arregoitia

TL;DR: Raising global scientific and public awareness of the plight of the world’s primates and the costs of their loss to ecosystem health and human society is imperative.

TL;DR: This study quantified the use of ALCs by primates worldwide, and analyzed species’ attributes that predict such use, showing that primates using anthropic lands are less often threatened with extinction, but more often diurnal, not strictly arboreal, with medium or large body sizes, and habitat generalists.

TL;DR: The use of threats in comparative extinction risk analysis is important and increasing but currently in the early stages of development, and priorities for future studies include improving uptake, availability, quality and quantification of threat data, and developing analytical methods that yield more robust, relevant and tangible products for conservation applications.

TL;DR: Despite being under-represented in the frequency distribution of lineage ages, species in older, slower evolving and distinct lineages are not more threatened or extinction-prone and their extinction would represent a disproportionate loss of unique evolutionary history.

TL;DR: It is concluded that when ecological characters do not show strong phylogenetic patterns, the authors cannot simply assume that close relatives are ecologically similar, and morphology can reflect functional similarity, an important component of community ecology and macroevolution.