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RECENT & 
PLEISTOCENE 
•^oo.ooo years 
PLIOCENE 
5,000 -Pt < 
500.000 years i 
MIOCENE 
9,000 ft < 
900,000 years , 
MODERN MAN 
EOANTHROPUS 
NEANDERTHAL. 
PITHECANTHROPUS 
PAOEiOPI THECUS 
PAIDOP/THBX 
FLIOPI THECUS 
DRYOPITHECUS 
OLIGOCENE 
12^00 f ^ 
1.200.000 years 
GREAT 
ORTHOORADE 
PRIMATES 
SMALL 
ORTHOGRADE 
PRIMATES 
PROPUOPI THECUS 
STEM OF 
NEW WORLD 
MONKEYS 
= __iCOMMON 
~ STEM 
Genealogical tree, showing the ancestral stems and probable lines of 
descent of the higher primates. 
