Out of Asia: Anthropoid Origins and the Colonization of Africa

Anthropoid primates other than humans show a conspicuously disjunct geographic distribution today, inhabiting mostly tropical and subtropical parts of Asia, Africa, and Central and South America. During the latter part of the Eocene, early anthropoids showed a similarly disjunct distribution, althou...

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Published in:Annual review of anthropology 2016-01, Vol.45 (1), p.199-213
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