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SCIENCE
Volume 352, Issue 6286, Pages 673-677Publisher
AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1126/science.aaf2107
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- Strategic Priority Research Program of CAS [XDB03020501]
- National Basic Research Program of China [2012CB821904]
- CAS 100-talent Program
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [41472025]
- U.S. National Science Foundation [BCS 0820602, BCS 1441585, EAR 1543684]
- Directorate For Geosciences
- Division Of Earth Sciences [1543684] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Division Of Behavioral and Cognitive Sci
- Direct For Social, Behav & Economic Scie [1441585] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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Profound environmental and faunal changes are associated with climatic deterioration during the Eocene-Oligocene transition (EOT) roughly 34 million years ago. Reconstructing how Asian primates responded to the EOT has been hindered by a sparse record of Oligocene primates on that continent. Here, we report the discovery of a diverse primate fauna from the early Oligocene of southern China. In marked contrast to Afro-Arabian Oligocene primate faunas, this Asian fauna is dominated by strepsirhines. There appears to be a strong break between Paleogene and Neogene Asian anthropoid assemblages. Asian and Afro-Arabian primate faunas responded differently to EOT climatic deterioration, indicating that the EOT functioned as a critical evolutionary filter constraining the subsequent course of primate evolution across the Old World.
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