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Features Of Primate Adaptation

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Primate evolution is very much driven by the changes in climate that happened throughout the time of their adaptations. Climate changes derived from one main source; the movement of tectonic plates. These tectonic plates that are constantly moving away from each other. In addition, the drifts in tectonic plates influence changes in climate because they moved large land masses away from each other to a different location which contained different climate statuses due to leaving them closer or further from the equator a huge decider of climate characteristics. Moreover with climate change, evolutionary adaptations came into play, with various species as well to one of the main features of primates which is their strategies and anatomical features

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