Explosive Pleistocene range expansion leads to widespread Amazonian sympatry between robust and gracile capuchin monkeys

By J. L. Alfaro, J. Boubli, L. Olson, A. Fiore, B. Wilson, G. Gutiérrez-Espeleta, Kenneth L. Chiou, Meredith Schulte, S. Neitzel, V. Ross and 5 more. 2012

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Aim  Capuchin monkey species are widely distributed across Central and South America. Morphological studies consistently divide the clade into robust and gracile forms, which show extensive sympatry in the Amazon Basin. We use genetic data to test whether Miocene or Plio‐Pleistocene processes may explain capuchin species’ present distributions, and consider three possible scenarios to explain widespread sympatry.

Subfields: Global and Planetary Change, Paleontology, Social Psychology

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