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Oligocene Anthropoids

Oligocene Anthropoids . Understanding Physical Anthropology and Archaeology, 9th ed ., p. 196. Understanding Physical Anthropology and Archaeology, 9th ed ., p. 103. “Anthropoids” = all living and extinct monkeys, apes and humans. Anthropoids. Oligocene Anthropoids.

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Oligocene Anthropoids

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  1. Oligocene Anthropoids Understanding Physical Anthropology and Archaeology, 9th ed., p. 196

  2. Understanding Physical Anthropology and Archaeology, 9th ed., p. 103

  3. “Anthropoids” = all living and extinct monkeys, apes and humans

  4. Anthropoids

  5. Oligocene Anthropoids

  6. General Features / Trends of Apes / Humans 2. “Dental apes” prospered during the Oligocene

  7. General Features / Trends of Apes / Humans Dental apes are “apes” with monkey-like bodies who did not hang or swing

  8. “Times to Remember” WebPage

  9. Oligocene Anthropoids Understanding Physical Anthropology and Archaeology, 9th ed., p. 196

  10. Major site Understanding Physical Anthropology and Archaeology, 9th ed., p. 195

  11. Oligocene El Fayum: Parapithecus • squirrel monkeys with teeth that associate them more with Old World monkeys

  12. Parapithecus

  13. Oligocene El Fayum: Parapithecus Propliopithecus • a small gibbon-like ape

  14. Propliopithecus Humankind Emerging, 7th ed., p. 179

  15. Oligocene El Fayum: Parapithecus Propliopithecus Aegyptopithecus

  16. Oligocene Anthropoids Aegyptopithecus zeuxis • Oligocene “dental ape” • largest of the Fayum anthropoids • ca. the size of a howler monkey • 13 – 20 pounds

  17. Oligocene Anthropoids Understanding Physical Anthropology and Archaeology, 9th ed., p. 196

  18. Humankind Emerging, 7th ed., p. 188

  19. Aegyptopithecus zeuxis

  20. Aegyptopithecus zeuxis

  21. Aegyptopithecus Humankind Emerging, 7th ed., p. 180

  22. Aegyptopithecus Humankind Emerging, 7th ed., p. 180

  23. Aegyptopithecus zeuxis

  24. Aegyptopithecus

  25. Oligocene Anthropoids Aegyptopithecus • is important because it bridges the gap between the Eocene fossils and the Miocene hominoids

  26. Oligocene Anthropoids Understanding Physical Anthropology and Archaeology, 9th ed., p. 196

  27. General Features / Trends of Apes / Humans 3. True apes that brachiated probably originated in the Early Miocene ca. 20 – 17 mya

  28. General Features / Trends of Apes / Humans “Only after the evolution of arboreal suspension . . . would the modern meaning of the term ape have been applicable.” Campbell-Loy, p. 195

  29. General Features / Trends of Apes / Humans All living apes show forelimb-dominated locomotion (They climb, swing, or hang about by their arms -- “brachiation”)

  30. Next: Miocene Hominoids Understanding Physical Anthropology and Archaeology, 9th ed., p. 196

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