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Early Primate Evolution


This chapter addresses the following questions:
  • What is a fossil, and how can we tell how old a fossil is?
  • What are the characteristics of a mammal? Of a primate?
  • When and where do we see primates in the fossil record, and how do we know they are primates?
  • What are the relationships among the early fossil primates?








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