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Chapter 15 - Primate Predecessors: From Trees to Ground

from Part IV - Evolutionary Transitions: From Primate Ancestors to Modern Humans

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 September 2021

Norman Owen-Smith
Norman Owen-Smith
Affiliation:
University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
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Summary

This chapter describes how Old World monkeys are partitioned between colobine and cercopithecoid subfamilies. Apes form a separate family, the Hominidae, including humans in the hominin subfamily. Little is known about their ancestry because fossils are rarely formed in wet forest environments. Baboons are distributed across savanna Africa in geographically distinct populations differentiated as species despite inter-breeding.

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monkey subfamiliesterrestrial locomotionbaboon distribution
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The Ecology of Human Evolution
 , pp. 249 - 252
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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Suggested Further Reading

Jablonski, N; Frost, S. (2010) Cercopithecoidea. In Werdelin, L; Sanders, WJ (eds) Cenozoic Mammals of Africa. University of California Press, Berkeley, pp. 393–428.Google Scholar

References

Jablonski, NG; Frost, S. (2010) Cercopithecoidea. In Werdelin, L; Sanders, WJ (eds) Cenozoic Mammals of Africa. University of California Press, Berkeley, pp. 393–428.Google Scholar
Harrison, T. (2010) Dendropithecoidea, proconsuloidea, and hominoidea. In Werdelin, L; Sanders, WJ (eds) Cenozoic Mammals of Africa. University of California Press, Berkeley, pp. 429–469.Google Scholar
MacLatchy, LM. (2010) Hominini. In Werdelin, L; Sanders, WJ (eds) Cenozoic Mammals of Africa. University of California Press, Berkeley, pp. 471–540.Google Scholar
Benefit, BR. (1999) Biogeography, dietary specialization, and the diversification of African Plio–Pleistocene monkeys. In Bromage, TG; Schrenk, F (eds) African Biogeography, Climate Change, and Human Evolution. Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 172–188.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Suwa, G, et al. (2007) A new species of great ape from the late Miocene epoch in Ethiopia. Nature 448:921–924.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Fischer, J, et al. (2019) The natural history of model organisms: insights into the evolution of social systems and species from baboon studies. Elife 8:e50989.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed

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