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Trends in the Evolution of Primate Mastication

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A DETAILED study of feeding behaviour and tooth use has been made in four extant primates, Tupaia, Galago, Saimiri, and Ateles, using a combination of cinefluorography and occlusal analysis. These primates were chosen because they form a structural series: a parallel series of fossil primates, Palenochtha, Pelycodus and Aegyptopithecus has also been studied.

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  1. K. HIIEMAE and R. F. KAY: Also Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. 02138.

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  1. Department of Anatomy, Guy's Hospital,

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  2. Department of Geology and Geophysics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, 06520

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HIIEMAE, K., KAY, R. Trends in the Evolution of Primate Mastication. Nature 240, 486–487 (1972). https://doi.org/10.1038/240486a0

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