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8.5: Review Questions

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    • Compare three major hypotheses about primate origins, making reference to each one’s key ecological reason for primate uniqueness.
    • Explain how changes in temperature, rainfall, and vegetation led to major changes in primate biogeography over the Early Tertiary.
    • List some euprimate features that plesiadapiforms have and some that they lack.
    • Contrast adapoids and omomyoids in terms of life habits.
    • Describe one piece of evidence for each of the adapoid, omomyoid, and tarsier origin hypotheses for anthropoids.
    • Discuss the biogeography of the origins of African great apes and orangutans using examples from the Miocene ape fossil record.

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