ANTH 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 38: Active Fault, Oligocene, Tibetan Plateau

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8 May 2018

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Anth 102

5/7/18

Introduction to Human

Origins.

Spring 2018

Oligocene Era

D. Oligoene Anthropoids

- Date from 34- 23 million years ago

- Fayum (fossil bed), Egypt.

- Layer after layer of fossils

- Many primates

- Transitional body patterns emerge

- Aegyptopitheccus-

- Possessed a monkey like skull and body, ape like dentition, possible ancestor of later monkeys,

hominins and apes

- Transitional features

- Piticus typically means monkey or ape like.

- Features of aegypto

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