ANTH 102 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Natural Selection, Yucatán Peninsula, Paleocene

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Anth 102

Introduction to Human

Origins

5/9/18

Spring 2018

Textbook Notes

Expansion Of Mammals and

Primates

A. Early primates emerge during time of great global change

- Start of Paleocene 65 million years ago

- Happened when meteor or other body slammed into Yucatan Peninsula

- This cools global temperatures and causes extinction of many animals

- Includes dinosaurs

- Dinosaurs had dominated for 100 million years

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