Human Evolution: it is belived to be that human evolution ocured in asia and Africa. The closet relative of human in primate is monkey and apes. As discussed before, tarsiers diverged into the anthropoids such as monkey, ape and humans. Monkey and tailess primates (Apes and man) evolve independtly 36 millioms year age from tarsoid stock (Figure 10.4).
Figure 10.4 : Family Tree of Primates.
Monkey: The monkey preferred to live arboreal life and adopted for this purpose. They evolved to jump from brach to brach and leaning on tree. The enlarged brain capacity has allowed monkeys to learn and for precise control of movement. The evolutionary lines of monkey and apes has several stages, starting from tarsiers. These are as follows: