ANTH 1001 Lecture : Notes For Anth1001
Document Summary
Piltdown specimen proven to be fake via fluorine dating by charles darwin in 1912. Where fossils of early eocene primates are found n. america and europe. Where fossils of later eocene primates are found asia and n. africa. Two lineages of old eocene primates: adapids and omomyids. Adapids may be related to lemurs and lorises. Omoyids may be related to tarsiers and anthropoids. Earliest definitive anthropoids are dated to late eocene, oligocene. Where fossils of the oligocene are found: fayum, egypt. Two lineages of oligocene anthropoids: propliopithecines and parapithecines. Propliopithecines have the same dental formula as ow monkey and humans. First hominoids are found in this epoch: miocene.
