The History of Primates

We are primates. But our story is only one end of the story of primates. From the proto primate plesiadapiform through the adapids and omomyids, and onto more modern forms, this video will walk through the basic story of primate evolution from 60 million years ago up to the late Miocene.

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Plesiadapis cooki - By Ghedoghedo, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Variety of lemurs - By Katta, CC BY-SA 3.0, via wikimedia commons
Eosimias sinensis - DiBgd, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Gibbon collage - By PaleoMatt - Own work based onKongkha, CC BY-SA 4.0, via wikimeda commons
Orangutan - Eleifert, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Gorrila - By Thurundir, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Gigantopithecus - By Concavenator - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Dryopithecus - By DiBgd - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Proconsul Skull - By Nrkpan - Natural History Museum, London., CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Proconsul africanus - Mateus Zica, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Pronconsul africanus - By Mauricio Antón, published with Alan Turner, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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Question:

“ Sometime during the Eocene, these ( groups of ) lemurs made it to Madagascar. “ ( time stamp at 02:55 )

How does this coincide with other lemur groups arriving in other parts of South Asia, North Asia and eventually the americas before diversification? Thank you

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Order: Primata (primates)

Suborder: Haplorhini (dry nose primates)(sister clade: Strepsirhini, aka wet nose primates)

Infraorder: Semiiformes (all "monkeys", including apes)(Catarrhini + Platyrrhini)(no sensory whiskers, two pectoral mamaries, pendulous penis, color vision)

Parvorder: Catarrhini (old world monkeys, downward nostrils, 2.1.2.3. dental formula)(Cercopithecoidea + Hominoidea)

Superfamily: Hominoidea (old world tailless simians. Hominidae + Hylobatidae (Gibbons).)(HOMINOIDS)

Family: Hominidae (great apes = Homininae + Pongo)(HOMINIDS)

Subfamily: Homininae (African Apes = Hominini + Gorillini)

Tribe: Hominini (Chimps + Bonobos + Hominina)(HOMININS)

Subtribe: Hominina (Australopithecina)
--( = Australopithecus + Ardipithecus + Orriron + Sahelanthropus + Graecopithecus)

Genus: Homo (HUMANS)
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Species: sapien