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Hominid : adaptations and extinctions

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  • "From 24 to 8 million years ago a large and anatomically diverse number of ape species populated present-day Africa, Asia, Europe and the Middle East. They occupied a wide range of habitats - evergreen forests, bamboo "jungles", swamps, woodlands and open savannas. Ultimately, these ape populations gave rise to the earliest humans, some 4.5 million years ago. At about 8 million years ago, however, the ape population of the world collapsed, leaving the four relic populations of the great-ape groups we know today : orang-utan, gorilla, chimpanzee and humans. The hominid (ape) fossil record provides an excellent case study in the identification and documentation of evolutionary patterns and processes. Hominid Adaptations and Extinctions focuses on the Neogene (that is, Miocene and Pliocene) period of 22 to 2.5 million years ago and synthesises the information currently available on hominid palaeobiology. In brief, it examines the record of the Neogene fossil apes : their adaptive trends, their morphologies and their relationships to the environment; their evolution and in many cases their extinctions. In so doing, it will provide original insights into the evolution of our most distant and our most immediate fossil ancestors."
  • "Looking at a period of history 22 to 2.5 million years ago, this title examines the record of the Neogene fossil apes: their adaptive trends, their morphologies and their relationships to the environment, their evolution and their extinctions, to provideinsights into the evolution of our most distant and our most immediate fossil ancestors."

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  • "Hominid adaptations and extinctions"

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