ANTH 110 Lecture 5: Anthro. lecture Ch. 5.6
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If early primates ate mostly plant foods rather than quick-moving insects, why did they become more reliant on vision (than smell): early primates were nocturnal. Anthropoids today include monkeys, apes, and humans (over 150 species) Fossil record in terms of the emergence of primates is very spotty. More clear-cut evidence of early anthropoids occur later, in the late eocene and early. Oligocene (34-24 mya) epochs particularly from the fayum region (cairo, egypt) The fayum has yielded many early anthropoid fossils (over 1,000) particularly from the. At the time, it was tropical rainforest environment teaming with primates. Two major classifications from this time period and region: the monkeylike parapithecids (parapithecidae) and apelike propliopithecids (propliopithecidae) The emergence of anthropoids: oligocene parapithecids (apidum, parapithecus, Monkey- like parapithecids had a 2133 dental formula as do new world monkeys. Also characterized by a postorbital bar and a postorbital plate, broad incisors, projecting canines, low, rounded cusps (molars) and small brains.
