ANTH 102 Chapter 11: Conditions that Allow for Primates
Anth 102
Introduction to Human
Origins
Spring 2018
Textbook Notes
Conditions that Allow for
Primates.
A. Visual predation hypothesis
- Suggests that primate visual and grasping abillilties
- Promoted though activity of hunting for insects by sight
- Small size of primates allowed them to use smaller brances of trees
- Heavier compeditors though could not follow
- Move to smaller branches gave abundant food supply
- Insects, leaves, flowers
- Direct access
- Rather than wait for them to fall to ground
B. First Primates
- First true merged 55 million years ago
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