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Nonhuman Primate Evolution

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Climate change influenced nonhuman primate evolution in a variety of ways. Around 55 mya, a serious period of global warming occurred just as euprimates were beginning to appear. Our book discusses how this rapid temperature increase created tropical weather conditions all across the globe. As a result, new habits were created and there was "an adaptive radiation of modern-appearing primates, the euprimates" (Larsen 260). In other words, the high global temperatures paired with the humidity let to the spread of tropical forests. These new environments made possible the evolution of nonhuman primates, and influenced the evolutionary path of primates.

Three common theories of early primate evolution are the Arboreal Hypothesis, the Visual Predation

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