ANT203Y1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: New World Monkey, Kenyapithecus, Pleistocene
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Chapter 9: overview of the fossil primates: introduction, this chapter traces primate evolution starting from the earliest fossil evidence of primate-like mammals of the paleocene up through the hominoid radiation of the. Primate origins: the conventional wisdom is that primate-like mammals first evolved in the early paleocene. However, new molecular evidence suggests that the lca between primates and their archontan relatives was present during the cretaceous period. (1) combining molecular and morphological evidence yields a divergence time for the. Rooneyia (from north america): the eosimiids, from china and burma, were once thought to be the ancestors of the anthropoids but they now appear to be the asian branch of a diverse. Eocene radiation of tarsier-like primates: the evolution of true tarsiers is represented by a meager fossil record. (1) fossils from the middle eocene of egypt and china and the late.
