Images for Chapter 19 Primates

Cladogram of early mammalian tree-dwellers. Figure 19.3.

Cladogram of licing primate groups. Figure 19.1.

Catching agile prey: Figure 19.2.

Plesiadapids

• Skull of a plesiadapid. Figure 19.5.
• A new fossil of the plesiadapid Carpolestes may shed light on the origin of true primates. Carpolestes and its big toe. National Geographic News, November 2002.

True Primates

• Living lemurs. Daubentonia, the prosimian that has an ecology in the woodpecker guild.
• Ring-tailed lemurs
• Black lemur. Figure 19.4.
• Lorises include the slow loris.
• Tarsier picture.
• Tarsier picture

The Origin of Anthropoids

Early Primates in China and Southeast Asia

• Eosimias
  • Eosimias.
  • Eosimias centennicus in a primate cladogram.

The Late Eocene Primates of Egypt

• Fayum primates and higher primates. Figure 19.9.
• The discovery of Aegyptopithecus
• Skull of Aegyptopithecus
• Skull of Aegyptopithecus .
• Apidium

The New World Monkeys

• capuchin monkeys.
• Golden lion tamarin
• Golden lion tamarin
• Golden lion tamarin
• Cotton top tamarin

Miocene Hominoids

• The strange ape Oreopithecus Skeleton.
• The strange ape Oreopithecus reconstructed in a tree.
• Its jaw
• Proconsul skull
• Cladogram of living hominoids, from moolecular and DNA evidence. Figure 19.11.

Sivapithecids

• The geography of sivapithecids. Figure 19.13.
• Separation of Asian and African clades of hominoids. Figure 20.2.
• The skull of Sivapithecus.
• Sivapithecids as ancestors of the orangutan. Figure 19.15.
• Gigantopithecus jaw with human jaw
• Gigantopithecus posing with his sculptor.

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