ANTH 011 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: List Of Fossil Primates, Oligocene, Mesozoic
22 Dec 2020
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Primate communication: transfer of information from sender to receiver. Kinship (can smell if an animal is related to them) Establishing territories (with calls warning that its their territory) Different animals have 20 or more different alarm calls- each one represents a different predator. Vocal apparatus in non-humans is not capable of producing human speech. Later studies used lexigrams to allow communication. Culture as a suite of learned, socially transmitted behaviors. Paleocene: earliest epoch in the age of mammals; dispursal of plesiadapiforms. Eocene had much warmer climates than the rest of time. Mammals existed during the age of dinosaurs (cretaceous) Separates age of reptiles and age of mammals . Chicxulub impact crater (around gulf of mexico) Major extinction left many adaptive niches available to be exploited by. Results adaptive radiation of mammals populations of early mammals. Based on what we know about extant and fossil primates, the earliest primates were: Early primate like fossils of the paleocene.
