ANTH 1001 Lecture : Anthropology Notes Lecture 3
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Paleontology: nature of a fossil, fossil evidence. Holocene (recent: mya = million years ago; ya = years ago, theory of plate tectonics. Explains geographical distribution of early primates: africa was an island continent prior to 19 mya. Aegyptopithecus: dental formula: 2,1,2,3/2,1,2,3, same dental formula as modern catarrhines (i. e. , ow monkeys, apes, humans, parapithecines, ex. These african anthropoids predate the earliest nw monkeys by about. Miocene: miocene: 23 5 mya, first hominoids, first hominins. 11/6/2014 7:11:00 pm: geographical distribution of miocene hominoids, in early miocene, africa was an island continent, separated from europe and asia by. About 19 mya, arabian plate partly separated from africa and contacted. Prior to this plate tectonic event, hominoids were restricted to africa; after this event, hominoids were distributed in africa, Europe, and asia: author"s classifications (time periods won"t be asked on test, african taxa, 23 14 mya, ex. Proconsul: european taxa, 16 11 mya, ex. Dryopithecus: asian taxa, 15 5 mya, ex.
