ANTH 1001 : Exam 3 Notes Part 1

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Tuesday, november 8, 2016: taxonomy and phylogeny. 1. two lineage of eocene primates: adapids and omomyids: adapids may be ancestral to lemurs and lorises, omomyids may be ancestral to tarsiers (and, perhaps, anthropoids) Inferences about eocene primates: some species were dinural, whereas others were nocturnal, locomotion, quadrupedality. 2. frugivory-folivory: observation, absence of tooth comb. Oligocene: 33-23 mya: earliest de nitive anthropoids are dated to the oligocene (actually, dated to terminal part of eocene, where fossils are found and dates, site, fayum, egypt (1) environment (a) tropical, dates, 33-35 mya, taxonomy. If you accept these that nw monkeys rafted to s. america on oating vegetation, then there are anthropoids in africa with the same dental formula. In early miocene, africa was an island continent, separated from europe and. About 19 mya arabian plate early separated from. Africa and contacted sw asia, forming a migratory corridor.

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