Recent research has cast doubt on the reliability of bones and teeth for reconstructing phylogenetic relationships among higher primate species and genera. Herein, we investigate whether this problem is confined to hard tissues by examining the utility of higher primate soft-tissue characters for reconstructing phylogenetic relationships at low taxonomic levels. We use cladistic methods to anal...

Molecular phylogenetics studies the hierarchical evolutionary relationships among organisms by means of molecular data. These relationships are typically described through a weighted tree, called phylogeny, whose leaves represent the observed organisms, internal vertices represent the intermediate ancestors, and the edges represent evolutionary relationships between pairs of organisms. Molecula...