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| euprimates of the Eocene that were likely ancestral to modern lemurals and possibly ancestral to anthropoids |
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| a genus of adapids from the Eocene |
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| a propliopithecid genus from the Oligocene, probably ancestral to catarrhines; the largest primates found in the Fayum, Egypt |
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| angiosperm radiation hypothesis |
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| the proposition that certain primate traits, such as visual acuity, occured in response to the availability of fruit and flowers following the spread of angiosperms |
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| a parapithecid from the Oligocene, possibly ancestral to anthropoids |
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| the proposition that primates' unique suite of traits is an adaptation to living in trees |
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| Eocene primates that are possibly ancestral to anthropoids |
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| a later basal anthropoid genus found in the Fayum, Egypt, that may be ancestral to anthropoids |
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| a South American genus from the Oligocene, ancestral to platyrrhines |
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| a plesiadapiform genus from the Paleocene, probably ancestral to the Eocene euprimates |
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| Early Miocene apes found in various locations in Europle |
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| a genus of dryopithecid apes found in Southern France |
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| a genus of very small basal anthropoids from the Eocene |
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| the first true primates from the Eocene: the tarsierlike omomyids and the lemurlike adapids |
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| a genus of Miocene pongids from Asia; the larges primate that ever lived |
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| a genus of Miocene apes from Asia, likely ancestral to orangutans |
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| a genus of very small proconsulids from the Miocene, found in Africa |
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| a genus of one of the largest adapids from the Eocene |
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| the earliest anthropoid ancestors in the Oligocene, found in the Fayum, Egypt |
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| Eocene euprimates that may be ancestral to tarsiers |
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| Miocene apes that were found in Europe |
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| a genus of oreopithecids found in Italy that was extinct within a million years of its appearance |
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| a genus of Miocene dryopithecids found in Greece |
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| a genus of later parapithecids from the Oligocene, found in Fayum, Egypt |
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| anthropoids ancestors from Oligocene, found in Fayum, Egypt |
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| paleocene organisms that may have been the first primates, originating from an adaptive radiation of mammals |
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| a genus of early Miocene proconsulids from Africa, ancestral to catarrhines |
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| early Miocene apes found in East Africa |
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| Oligocene propliothecid genus |
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| anthropoid ancestors from the Oligocene, found in Africa |
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| a separate order of early primate ancestors from the Paleocene, such as the plesiadapiforms |
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| early Miocene apes found in Asia |
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| an early catarrhine Oligocene genus from a group of primates that gave rise to later catarrhines |
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| a Genus of Miocene sivapithecids, proposed as ancestral to orangutans |
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| a genus of fossil and living Old World monkeys, found in Africa. It was more diverse in the past that it is today and was one of the first monkey genera to appear in the evolutionary record |
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| Miocene primates from Africa, possibly ancestral to Old World monkeys |
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| visual predation hypothesis |
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| the proposition that unique primate traits arose as adaptations to preying on insects and on small animals |
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