AR103 Lecture Notes - Graecopithecus, Taung Child, Oreopithecus
14 Mar 2014
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Fruit and leaf eating population (frugivorous, folivorous) No good candidate for the platyrhini common ancestor. Divergence between primates of old world and new. Possible common ancestor of old world (catarrhine) primates. Resulted in number of old world populations. Late miocene produced a number of ape-like populations. Other populations - orthograde posture (like modern apes) Recovered from western old world - africa, europe. Gorilla sized (500lbs) western old world (greece, africa) Dryopithecus (good candidate morphologically, probably extinct too early 14-12 mybp)/ sivapithecus (dates to correct period (6-8 mybp), morphological similarity to orangutan) Graecopithecus (dates to correct period (10-6mybp), western. Old world population (africa, europe), morphological similarities to modern african apes) Of those populations forced to become terrestrial. Appearance / adaptive radiation of tribe hominini. Characteristics of fossil hominins: position of the foramen magnum. Well forward under skull: differences in tooth size. Hominin populations of the pliocene; in order of their recovery paleoanthropologically. Named it, meaning the southern ape-like population of africa.
