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paleontology
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the study of fossils
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Cenozoic Era
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65 million years ago-present
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Paleocene
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65-54.8 million years ago
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Eocene
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54.8-33.7 million years ago
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Adapidae
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Most primitive known group of primates, ancestors of strepsirhines
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Omomyidae
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Common ancestor of tarsiers and anthropoids, probably to all haplorhines; meaning human ancestor
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E. Simons & D. Pilbean
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studied Miocene in 1960's, organized data based on: size, geographic location, geologic age
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Fayum Depression
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Egypt; earliest documentation of single frontal bone, at least 2 fams. of anthropoids (meaning earlier anths. must exist)
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