ANT332H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Diastema, Callosity, Pterion
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Makes it difficult to make a definitive phylogenetic relationship. Not only do we heavily rely on small fragments of these fossils, but also the majority of the fossils come from isolated random localities: limited extant primates. Tabresnet article: living primates are vey narrow in their taxonomy. There are many fossil primate taxonomic groups that no longer exist (and there is nothing to compare them to). Evidence for patterns and rates of evolutionary change. Phylogenies based on living organizsms are best considered as hypotheses of evolutionary change. Ecocene are the age of the prosimians. Oligocene is the age of the monkeys seeing the split between nwm and owm. Miocene is the age of the apes, the hominoids: there is the early, middle, and late miocene. On the lab test, it is mostly miocene and pliocene. Involves ordering artifacts into sequences relative to each other: stratigraphy, typological sequencinig, palynology (pollen dating, palentology (faunal dating)
