Primate origins: Implications of a Cretaceous ancestry

Folia Primatologica

Volumn 78, Issue 5-6, 2007, Pages 277-296

  Martin, Robert D ^a   Soligo, Christophe ^c   Tavaré, Simon ^b,d  

^a FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ancestral primates; Body size; Continental drift; Cretaceous Tertiary boundary; Fossil record; Palaeoclimates; Primate origins

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; BODY SIZE; CONFERENCE PAPER; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; FOSSIL; MALE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; PRIMATE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BODY SIZE; EVOLUTION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; FOSSILS; MALE; PHYLOGENY; PRIMATES; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

AVES; DINOSAURIA; EUTHERIA; PRIMATES;

EID: 34548690606     PISSN: 00155713     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000105145     Document Type: Conference Paper

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