To discuss: Less diversity is seen among living ape species than fossil ape taxa of the early mid Miocene and the types of selective pressures operating in the late Miocene which favoured the adaptive radiation of M and contributed to decrease diversity of AP’s
Introduction:
The taxonomic order originated about fifty million years ago. Multiple hypotheses are based on the attributes identified in primates which are living and extinct which are arboreal and visual acuity adaptions which are proposed to explain the true primates arose in past times. The fossils of ancestor’s primates are found in many parts of the globe. The locations and appearances of fossils illuminate the period of significant evolutionary scenarios which are shaped the primates orders.
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