Question

Short/ Long answer type questions
Name the primates that lived about 15 million years ago. List their characteristic features.

Answer 1

Dryopithecus and Ramapithecus was a tree-dwelling ape that originated in eastern Africa about 15 million years ago. They showed the following characteristics features:-

• Their arms and legs were of equal length.
  
• They had semi-erect posture, large canines, and without brow ridges.
  
• The canine teeth were larger than those in humans but not as strongly developed as those in other living apes.
  
• They were most likely vegetarians subsisting on fruit.