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To write:The actions of plate tectonics affected the evolution of primates
Introduction:Primates are a large, diverse group of over 200 species that live there. The bulk of Primates are arboreal. Arboreal primates share the tropical and subtropical ecosystems of the world. Primates who lived on the ground are treated as terrestrial.
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Throughout the past, primates throughout North America and Europe were both common and complex and had much larger ranges in Latin America, Madagascar and Asia. Many of the drastic shifts in primatebiogeography can be correlated with global climatic disasters and seismic shifts in continental interconnections.Primate’s developmental history appears to have included a wide variety of traditional dispersal processes including ground bridges, chances of dispersal across the open ocean, and intermediate jumping on the island. The primate assemblies present in most parts of the world comprise members of many different races, each with a distinctive biogeography background.Stepsirrhines have large eyes and ears found in tropical Africa and Asia. They are reproductively isolated, which resulted in their diversification.
Thus, it concludes that the plate tectonic activities have influenced primate evolution in a variety of ways.
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