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... Hominoidea The most significant differences between the Hominoidea and the other anthropoids concern modes of locomotion and suspension dur- ing feeding . In contrast to the hominoids , monkeys are generally small arboreal animals that ...
... Hominoidea The most significant differences between the Hominoidea and the other anthropoids concern modes of locomotion and suspension dur- ing feeding . In contrast to the hominoids , monkeys are generally small arboreal animals that ...
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... Hominoidea Anthropoidea Anthropoidea Primata 60 70 Paleocene 600 million years ago Animalia Cambrian 500 ( ? ) 40 Eocene Ordovician 440 Silurian Permain 270 Carboniferous Devonian 350 400 Chordata Vertebrata Tetrapoda PALEOZOIC ...
... Hominoidea Anthropoidea Anthropoidea Primata 60 70 Paleocene 600 million years ago Animalia Cambrian 500 ( ? ) 40 Eocene Ordovician 440 Silurian Permain 270 Carboniferous Devonian 350 400 Chordata Vertebrata Tetrapoda PALEOZOIC ...
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... Hominoidea and the Old World monkeys . But three other kinds of apelike fossils are also present among the Fayum Oligocene materials . The earliest of these is Aegyptopithecus , whose four - inch - long skull and jaws and teeth resemble ...
... Hominoidea and the Old World monkeys . But three other kinds of apelike fossils are also present among the Fayum Oligocene materials . The earliest of these is Aegyptopithecus , whose four - inch - long skull and jaws and teeth resemble ...
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Biological Evolution | 7 |
FIGURES 11 Anthropologists at Work 289 | 8 |
Population Genetics | 13 |
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