Environmental Grain, Niche Diversification and Feeding Behaviour in Primates

  • Suzanne Ripley
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Abstract

The broad course of primate evolution during the Tertiary era must be reconstructed in its floral and faunal setting. Certain mammals, including Homo and some other primate lineages, were able to adapt to widely fluctuating conditions during the second part of the Tertiary (Neogene) (Janis, 1982). Such ecosystems ranged from semi-evergreen rain-forests to woodlands, savannahs and grasslands with increasingly pronounced seasonality (Walter, 1971, 1973). These flexible primates were generalists, but their ancestors evolved in very different ecosystems — in the evergreen tropical rain-forests that predominated in the moist climate of the Paleogene. How can this transition be explained?

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Body Size Feeding Behaviour Large Body Size Biomass Density Primate Evolution 
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  • Suzanne Ripley
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  1. 1.EnglewoodUSA

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