Miocene Primates of Asia
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Dr. Pilbeam and his collaborators will continue their research                  into the origins of higher primates, including hominids (humans).               In particular, they will focus on the earlier less well known                   time period which extends from ca. 15 - 7 million years ago.  It                was during this mid to late Miocene period that the human line                  likely emerged and that modern genera of anthropoid apes first                  appear.  Unfortunately, the fossil record is very scanty, and Dr.               Pilbeam's research is helping to fill this gap.  With past NSF                  support, Dr. Pilbeam has led field projects in Pakistan and Kenya               which have recovered extremely significant finds.                                                                                                               Dr. Pilbeam will continue fieldwork in Pakistan and will analyze                materials recovered both there and in Kenya.  Years of search                   have produced extensive fossil assemblages and the team will work               to elucidate patterns of development in both primates and other                 mammalian groups.  They will reconstruct the structure of faunal                communities and trace their change through time.                                                                                                                This research is important because it traces the development of                 the human species.  To understand ourselves as we are today, it                 is important to trace our long-term history and to elucidate the                processes which are reflected therein.
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