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. 2017 Oct 12;8:880. doi: 10.1038/s41467-017-00997-4

Table 2.

Selective regimes, estimated body mass optima, and groups assigned to each regime for primates including fossils with fossil families in parentheses

Regimes Body mass optima (kg) Assigned members LCA
a 1.36 Cebidae, Cheirogaleidae, Daubentoniidae, Galagidae, Indriidae, Lemuridae, Lorisidae, Pithecidae, Tarsiidae, Archicebus achilles (Family: Archicebidae), Eosimias sinensis (Eosimiidae), Karanisia clarki (Galagidae), Komba robustus (Galagidae), Carlocebus carmenensis (Pitheciidae), Nycticeboides simpsoni (Lorisidae), Branisella boliviana (incertae sedis)
b 29.68 Hi. laietanus, S. indicus, Au. afarensis, Au. africanus, Au. sediba, H. floresiensis, H. habilis, P. boisei, P. robustus Hominid LCA
c 126.16 Pr. major, G. beringei, G. gorilla
e 59.85 E. nyanzae, D. fontani, H. erectus, Modern humans, Po. abelii, Po. pygmaeus
h 6.95 Atelidae, most Cercopithecidae, Hylobatidae, Epipliopithecus vindobonensisi (Pliopithecidae), Ekembo heseloni (Proconsulidae), Proconsul africanus (Proconsulidae), Pliobates cataloniae (Pliobatidae), Victoriapithecus macinnesi (Cercopithecidae) Hominoid LCA
j 94.96 H. heidelbergensis, H. neanderthalensis
k 17.65 Papio anubis, Papio cynocephalus
m 45.23 Ar. ramidus, Au. anamensis, O. tugenensis, Pa. paniscus, Pa. troglodytes, Pr. africanus African Hominid/Chimpanzee-Human LCA

LCA column denotes optima that include estimated body mass of the last common ancestor (LCA) of groups shown. Regimes match those in Fig. 1