Anthropology › Section D · Evolution, primates, and early hominins › Topic D.6
Origin and classification of primates
The primate story begins soon after the dinosaurs disappeared, about 66 million years ago. Reading it means thinking in deep time, dating rocks and bones, and classifying fossils from teeth and fragments.
In this topic
- Thinking in deep time
- What fossils are and why they are rare
- Relative dating
- Absolute dating
- Worked example: the limits of radiocarbon
- Worked example: bracketing a fossil
- The first primates
- Monkeys appear
- The age of apes
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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