ANT101H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Herbivore, Transitional Fossil, Dryopithecus
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Remember the progression from primate origins to genus. Quiz is paleoanthropology, so don"t need to know specific spellings of names, just recognize them (30 m/c) On blackboard - major periods of primates - goes thru epochs and when and where they appear. Final exam - fill in details on this chart. This chart gives u genus species name and the date. If you can fill in all the details, you"ll do well. Adapidae at the time of eocene (55-34 mya) Oligocene (age of monkeys) proplieopithecus - look at lecture 9. Middle miocene where we start to see split off, parapithecdae and apes). dryopithecus (ancestor of african great ape or all. Late miocene - vest disappearance of apes and new apes in asia. When miocene ends 5 mya, we see transition from apes to our probable ancestor (ape to more human like being) Large brain size (encephalization) - traditionally thought to be the instigator of the beginning of our evolution.
