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Discuss the Selective Pressures Operating in the Late Miocene,Pliocene,and Pleistocene

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Discuss the selective pressures operating in the late Miocene,Pliocene,and Pleistocene that favored an adaptive radiation of monkeys and contributed to decreased diversity among apes.


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