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Representatives of living primate families. (Copyright © McGraw-Hill Education)
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Carpolestes simpsoni, a 55.5-million-year-old plesiadapiform from Wyoming: (a) skeleton as recovered, laid out in approximate anatomical position; (b) reconstruction in life stance on a tree branch; elements in dark gray are known; (c) external…
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Cranium of the omomyoid tarsiiform Teilhardina asiatica, from deposits dated approximately 55 MYA in China: (a) dorsal (top) view as found; (b) left lateral reconstruction. (Credit: Xijun Ni)
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Anjohibe (Madagascar) specimen of Palaeopropithecus ingens (an extinct lemur), mounted in a probable habitat posture. (Credit: American Geological Institute)
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Partly reconstructed skeleton (casts) of Paracolobus chemeroni, a 3.2-million-year-old colobine monkey from Kenya, on exhibit at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. (Credit: Eric Delson)
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Reconstructed skeleton of Proconsul heseloni, an early hominoid (23–14 MYA) from East Africa. Known parts are shaded. (Credit: R. L. Ciochon and R. S. Corruccini)
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Italian physicist and astronomer Galileo Galilei (1564–1643) founded the modern scientific method of deducing laws to explain the results of observation and experiment. (Credit: Getty Images)
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Kutorgina, showing (a) exterior of pedicle (ventral) valve; (b) lateral view of shell; (c) exterior of brachial (dorsal) valve. (After C. D. Walcott, Cambrian Brachiopoda, USGS Monogr., vol. 51, 1912)
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Early Tertiary fruits and seeds which were found in the Brandon lignite of Vermont. (a) Endocarps of Symplocos. (b) Seeds of grape (Vitis). (c) Seeds of Rubus. (d) Endocarp of extinct species of Nyssa. (e) Seeds of fossil genus of family Rutaceae,…
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Leaf, branch, and cone characteristics of conifers. (a) Branch of pine with leaves and ovulate cones. (b) Ovulate cone of spruce cut longitudinally to show scales with ovules. (c) Detail of one scale with two ovules. (Copyright © McGraw-Hill…
