Chapter 8: Primate Origins and Evolution: The First 50,000,000 Years
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- CHAPTER 8 PRIMATE ORIGINS AND EVOLUTION: THE FIRST 50,000,000 YEARS
- BIG QUESTIONS
- Why Did Primates Emerge?
- The First True Primate: Visual, Tree-Dwelling, Agile, Smart
- Primates in the Paleocene?
- Eocene Euprimates: The First True Primates
- The Fate of the Euprimates
- The Anthropoid Ancestor: Euprimate Contenders
- Basal Anthropoids
- HOW DO WE KNOW?: The Fayum Depression: Heartland of Anthropoid Ancestors
- Early Anthropoids Evolve and Thrive
- CONCEPT CHECK: When Were They Primates?: Anatomy through Time
- Coming to America: Origin of New World Higher Primates
- How Anthropoids Got to South America
- Apes Begin in Africa and Dominate the Miocene Primate World
- Apes Leave Africa: On to New Habitats and New Adaptations
- Apes in Europe: The Dryopithecids
- Apes in Asia: The Sivapithecids
- Dead End in Ape Evolution: The Oreopithecids
- Climate Shifts and Habitat Changes
- Miocene Ape Survivors Give Rise to Modern Apes
- Apes Return to Africa?
- CONCEPT CHECK: The First Apes: A Remarkable Radiation
- ANTHROPOLOGY MATTERS: Fine Motor Skills: Unique to Humans?
- Monkeys on the Move
- ANSWERING THE BIG QUESTIONS
- Key Terms
- Additional Readings
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