Origins of New World monkeys |
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Authors: | Frank J. Orlosky Daris R. Swindler |
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Affiliation: | 1. Regional Primate Research Center University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, U.S.A.;2. Department of Anthropology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, U.S.A. |
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Abstract: | Fossil ceboid evidence is reviewed with reference to the origins and affinities of the New World monkeys. This evidence indicates that the ceboids evolved from a North American primate of omomyid-like form. The events of continental drift apparently had little to do with the origin and dispersion of the New World monkeys and direct relationships to the Old World monkeys are not indicated. Three of the five extant New World monkey subfamilies are represented in late Miocene deposits of South America and it appears that evolutionary events leading to extant Ceboidea occurred within the South American continent. |
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