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| cool to cold, humans first leave Africa |
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| warmer seasonal, first humans in Africa. Mediterranean dries up |
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| starts out warm wet and seasonal. Great time to be an ape! |
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cool, dry equable, extinction of primates in northern continents.
• Global changes..cooling.
• Sea levels drop= drought
• Temperal forests |
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equable, warm, wet, earlier higher primates
• Radiation of tarsiers and anthropoids |
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| In egypt--place where bunch of primates found |
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| wind sweep sand away, and with in the sand are fossils and cobblestones. |
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• Adapoids
• Omimyoids
• Incerta sedis
• Lower primates
• Higher primates
Parapithecoids
Propliopiticoids
Oligopithecids |
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• Postorbital plate
• Dental formula- 2/1/3/3
• Higher primates because of the post orbital closure and fused symphysis. Must be an anthropoid
ring shaped ectotympanic
• Sexual diamorphism--multiple female social groups |
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• Platyrrhine/parapithecoids- I formation with skull
• Catarrhines- H formation with skull bones
• Post orbital closure
• entepicondylar foramen retained
• Ring like ectotympanic
• No fused mandible-primitive |
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• got primitive little guys
o soft fruit eaters, arboreal quadrupeds
• more advanced apes as well (Proconsulidae)
o larger than little guys. Arboreal quadrupeds |
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| Pliopithicids in Miocene in Europe/Asia |
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• Entepicondylar foramen
• Almost ringlike tympanic
• Leaf and fruit eaters
• Late surviving relic of fayum apes. |
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| Take home idea from lecture |
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Idea to take home was there was far more radiation of apes in miocene than there is today.
Miocene was a great time to be an apes, this is just the tip of the iceberg. |
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