Soligo, C;
(2017)
Origins of Primates – Debates and controversies.
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The international encyclopedia of primatology.
Wiley Blackwell
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Abstract
Most current scenarios of primate origins depict small nocturnal animals feeding on insects and/or fruit, flowers, and nectar in the complex small-branch environments of tropical forests. Some of these elements, however, have been challenged, and still need to be comprehensively tested through formal comparative analyses or supported by fossil data. Key contextual elements of primate origins that require clarification include the phylogenetic relationships between primates, colugos, tree shrews, and plesiadapiforms, and the divergence times of associated clades. In addition, a consensus regarding patterns of phyletic size change in the primate stem lineage and the size of the last common ancestor of extant primates would help clarify both the likely physical environment that ancestral primates inhabited and their dietary behavior.
| Type: | Book chapter |
|---|---|
| Title: | Origins of Primates – Debates and controversies |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1002/9781119179313.wbprim0318 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119179313.wbprim0318 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | evolutionary history, fossil primates |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Dept of Anthropology |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10039046 |
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