ANTH 1301 Lecture 17: Lecture 17
19 Oct 2015
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During the cenozoic: most of primate evolution unfolded. Plate tectonics and sea floor spreading: produces islands. Island hoping: if there is an island chain, animals can spread around from island to island until they are on the other side and to south america. Catarrhine: old world monkeys. have a tubular ear whole system. Platyrrhine: new world monkeys. around 45 million split from another group. Fayum, egypt - middle of the dessert but wasn"t always a dessert. Unual groups of animals. had a river aligned with evergreen trees. Elwyn simons: leader of the research in egypt since 1959 and now is retired. ancestral elephant giant rhino: monkeys. Apidium - the genus apidium is that of at least three extinct primates living from the late eocene to the early. Apidium fossils are common in the fayoum deposits of egypt. Late eocene (35 mya) fayum in egypt: oligopithecid, walled orbits, had some derived catarrhine features.
