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From Ape to Man Pictorial Guide (UB Papers 61 & 62) © Saskia Praamsma 2003 1. 50,000,000 years ago in North America the placental type of mammals suddenly appeared. 2. 30,000.000 years ago ... in western North (p.693) [prosimians] America, the early ancestors of the ancient lemurs first made their appearance. While 3. 15,000,000 years ago ... in central this family cannot be regarded as true lemurs, Asia the true types of both the their coming marked the establishment of the primitive monkey and the gorilla line from which the true lemurs subsequently evolved, having a common ancestor, sprang.(p.696) [prosimians] now extinct. But neither of these species is concerned in the line of living beings which were, later on, to ▼ become the ancestors of the human 4. 10,000,000 years ago ▼ race.(p.697) [old world monkeys] ... in South America ... the ▼ 5. About 1,000,000 years ago, among the South American type of 5a. The early lemurs offspring of Asiatic migrants of the older North primitive monkeys concerned in the American lemur types, the DAWN MAMMALS evolved. (p.698) [new ancestry of the human pliopithecus suddenly appeared. [They] multiplied and world monkeys] species were not directly spread over the Mesopotamian peninsula for related to the pre- more than one thousand years ... [p.704] existent tribes of gibbons and apes then living in Eurasia and 6. In the seventieth generation northern Africa, whose ... a new and higher group of progeny have survived to animals suddenly differentiated. the present time. Neither proconsul These new MID-MAMMALS— were they the offspring of almost twice the size and height the modern type of of their ancestors and lemur, though springing possessing proportionately from an ancestor increased brain power ... [e700] common to both but long dryopithecus [reigned] for almost fifteen since extinct. (p.703) thousand years (six hundred ▼ [lemurs] generations). (p.705) 9. [The simians] have continued much as oreopithecus of that day except for those branches which mated with the earlier types of gibbons and apes and have greatly deteriorated in consequence. [p.706] ...[F]rom that day to this the human branch ▼ has gone forward by progressive 8. Contemporaneously with 7. The PRIMATES, the third vital ramapithecus evolution, while the simian tribes have the birth of these Primates mutation, suddenly appeared. [p.700] remained stationary or have actually twins, another couple—a [The Primates constituted] the next vital retrogressed.) [p.700] [apes] ▼ peculiarly retarded male step in prehuman evolution. (706) The and female of the mid- Primates were more human and less mammal tribe, a couple that australapithecus animal than their mid-mammal were both mentally and predecessors. ... [p.707] physically inferior—also gave birth to twins. ... These retarded twins ▼ became the founders of the 10. [A]fter almost nine hundred generations modern SIMIAN TRIBES. paranthropus of development, covering about twenty-one (p.700) [apes] thousand years from the origin of the dawn mammals, the Primates suddenly gave birth to two remarkable creatures, the first true HUMAN BEINGS.[p.707] From the year A.D. 1934 back to the birth of the first two human beings is just 993,419 years. [p.707] 11. [M]any of their later ▼ descendants stooped to mate homo erectus with their retarded cousins of advanced the simian tribes. (p.711) ... australapithecus The groups going west became less contaminated with the neanderthal backward stocks of mutual man ancestral origin than those ▼ going east, who mingled so rhodesian freely with their retarded animal man Click here for cousins. (p.711) scientific solo (java) man descriptions early homo sapiens cro-magnon man modern man ▼.

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