Book contents
- Only in Africa
- Only in Africa
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Part I The Physical Cradle: Land Forms, Geology, Climate, Hydrology and Soils
- Part II The Savanna Garden: Grassy Vegetation and Plant Dynamics
- Part III The Big Mammal Menagerie: Herbivores, Carnivores and Their Ecosystem Impacts
- Part IV Evolutionary Transitions: From Primate Ancestors to Modern Humans
- Chapter 15 Primate Predecessors: From Trees to Ground
- Chapter 16 Primate Ecology: From Forests into Savannas
- Chapter 17 How an Ape Became a Hunter
- Chapter 18 Cultural Evolution: From Tools to Art and Genes
- Chapter 19 Reticulate Evolution Through Turbulent Times
- Chapter 20 Prospects For a Lonely Planet
- Appendix Scientific Names of Extant Animal and Plant Species Mentioned in the Book Chapters (Ecologically Conservative with Regard to Species Recognition)
- Index
- References
Chapter 15 - Primate Predecessors: From Trees to Ground
from Part IV - Evolutionary Transitions: From Primate Ancestors to Modern Humans
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 September 2021
Book contents
- Only in Africa
- Only in Africa
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Part I The Physical Cradle: Land Forms, Geology, Climate, Hydrology and Soils
- Part II The Savanna Garden: Grassy Vegetation and Plant Dynamics
- Part III The Big Mammal Menagerie: Herbivores, Carnivores and Their Ecosystem Impacts
- Part IV Evolutionary Transitions: From Primate Ancestors to Modern Humans
- Chapter 15 Primate Predecessors: From Trees to Ground
- Chapter 16 Primate Ecology: From Forests into Savannas
- Chapter 17 How an Ape Became a Hunter
- Chapter 18 Cultural Evolution: From Tools to Art and Genes
- Chapter 19 Reticulate Evolution Through Turbulent Times
- Chapter 20 Prospects For a Lonely Planet
- Appendix Scientific Names of Extant Animal and Plant Species Mentioned in the Book Chapters (Ecologically Conservative with Regard to Species Recognition)
- Index
- References
Summary
This chapter describes how Old World monkeys are partitioned between colobine and cercopithecoid subfamilies. Apes form a separate family, the Hominidae, including humans in the hominin subfamily. Little is known about their ancestry because fossils are rarely formed in wet forest environments. Baboons are distributed across savanna Africa in geographically distinct populations differentiated as species despite inter-breeding.
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- Only in AfricaThe Ecology of Human Evolution, pp. 249 - 252Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021
References
Suggested Further Reading
Jablonski, N; Frost, S. (2010) Cercopithecoidea. In Werdelin, L; Sanders, WJ (eds) Cenozoic Mammals of Africa. University of California Press, Berkeley, pp. 393–428.Google Scholar
References
Jablonski, NG; Frost, S. (2010) Cercopithecoidea. In Werdelin, L; Sanders, WJ (eds) Cenozoic Mammals of Africa. University of California Press, Berkeley, pp. 393–428.Google Scholar
Harrison, T. (2010) Dendropithecoidea, proconsuloidea, and hominoidea. In Werdelin, L; Sanders, WJ (eds) Cenozoic Mammals of Africa. University of California Press, Berkeley, pp. 429–469.Google Scholar
MacLatchy, LM. (2010) Hominini. In Werdelin, L; Sanders, WJ (eds) Cenozoic Mammals of Africa. University of California Press, Berkeley, pp. 471–540.Google Scholar
Benefit, BR. (1999) Biogeography, dietary specialization, and the diversification of African Plio–Pleistocene monkeys. In Bromage, TG; Schrenk, F (eds) African Biogeography, Climate Change, and Human Evolution. Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 172–188.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Suwa, G, et al. (2007) A new species of great ape from the late Miocene epoch in Ethiopia. Nature 448:921–924.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Fischer, J, et al. (2019) The natural history of model organisms: insights into the evolution of social systems and species from baboon studies. Elife 8:e50989.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed