Richard F. Kay
Duke University
183 Papers
2.1K Citations
Richard F. Kay is an academic researcher from Duke University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Biology & Aegyptopithecus. The author has an hindex of 59, co-authored 177 publications. Previous affiliations of Richard F. Kay include Harvard University & Yale University.
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Papers
The ontogeny of premolar dental wear in Cercocebus albigena (cercopithecidae)
TL;DR: Evidence advanced here indicates that OR facets on pointed anterior premolars of cercopithecoids are actually Phase I facets that have become reoriented as a result of a rotation of this tooth during its eruption.
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Parvimico materdei gen. et sp. nov.: A new platyrrhine from the Early Miocene of the Amazon Basin, Peru
Richard F. Kay,Lauren A Gonzales,Wout Salenbien,Jean Noël Martinez,Siobhán B. Cooke,Luis Angel Valdivia,Catherine A. Rigsby,Paul A. Baker +7 more
TL;DR: The new primate described here is an unworn M1 of exceptionally small size, and its unusual morphology hints at a wholly original and hitherto unknown Amazonian fauna, and reinforces the impression of the geographic separation of the Amazonian tropics from the more geographically isolated southerly parts of the continent in Early Miocene times.
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Evidence for an Asian origin of stem anthropoids
TL;DR: There must have been a late Middle Eocene geographic connection between the primate faunas of Asia and Africa, and further support for intercontinental connections between south Asia and African is found among other contemporaneous mammalian groups, including anomaluroid and hystricognathous rodents.
100 years of primate paleontology.
TL;DR: From the first growth of the tree, many a limb and branch has decayed and dropped off; and these lost branches of various sizes may represent those whole orders, families, and genera which have now no living representatives and are known to us only from having been found in a fossil state.
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