The Eocene-Oligocene Transition (IMAGE)

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The Eocene-Oligocene Transition

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The Eocene-Oligocene transition (EOT) functioned as a critical filtering episode during the evolutionary history of primates, leading to more lemur like primates in Asia, and driving more anthropods to emerge in Afro-Arabia.

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Image by Ni Xijun

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