India under Asia:
1) OWM/ape split: apes colonized India (low, wet, hot) & became aquarboreal: vertical waders-climbers along the Tethys Ocean,
2) the Himalaya split colobines (E) & cercopithecines (W),
3) India split lesser (E) & great (W) apes (still predom.aquarboreal):
-- hylobatids along the SE.Asian Ind.Ocean coasts,
-- gr.apes along the Red+Med.Sea.
The Mesopotamian Seaway closure c 15 Ma split hominids (W) & pongids (E):
-- pongids along the SE.Asian coastal forests, forcing hylobatids higher into the trees,
-- hominids around the Red & Med.Sea (Graecopith, footprints, Oreopith etc.) + inland along rivers. HPG in Red Sea.
E.Afr.Rift fm split Gorilla & HP c 8 Ma: G followed the rift ->subgenus Praeanthropus Pliocene afarensis ->Pleist.boisei.
Opening of Red Sea c 5 Ma:
- Pan fossil subgenus Australopithecus initially followed the E.Afr.coasts ->Pliocene africanus ->Pleist.robustus // E.Afr.apiths,
- Homo followed the S.Asian coasts ->Peistocene shellfish-diving.
India under Asia:
1) OWM/ape split: apes colonized India (low, wet, hot) & became aquarboreal: vertical waders-climbers along the Tethys Ocean,
2) the Himalaya split colobines (E) & cercopithecines (W),
3) India split lesser (E) & great (W) apes (still predom.aquarboreal):
-- hylobatids along the SE.Asian Ind.Ocean coasts,
-- gr.apes along the Red+Med.Sea.
The Mesopotamian Seaway closure c 15 Ma split hominids (W) & pongids (E):
-- pongids along the SE.Asian coastal forests, forcing hylobatids higher into the trees,
-- hominids around the Red & Med.Sea (Graecopith, footprints, Oreopith etc.) + inland along rivers. HPG in Red Sea.
E.Afr.Rift fm split Gorilla & HP c 8 Ma: G followed the rift ->subgenus Praeanthropus Pliocene afarensis ->Pleist.boisei.
Opening of Red Sea c 5 Ma:
- Pan fossil subgenus Australopithecus initially followed the E.Afr.coasts ->Pliocene africanus ->Pleist.robustus // E.Afr.apiths,
- Homo followed the S.Asian coasts ->Peistocene shellfish-diving.
Only incredible imbeciles still believe their Pleistocene ancestors ran after antelopes over Afr.savannas.
India under Asia:
1) OWM/ape split: apes colonized India (low, wet, hot) & became aquarboreal: vertical waders-climbers along the Tethys Ocean,
2) the Himalaya split colobines (E) & cercopithecines (W),
3) India split lesser (E) & great (W) apes (still predom.aquarboreal):
-- hylobatids along the SE.Asian Ind.Ocean coasts,
-- gr.apes along the Red+Med.Sea.
The Mesopotamian Seaway closure c 15 Ma split hominids (W) & pongids (E): -- pongids along the SE.Asian coastal forests, forcing hylobatids higher into the trees,
-- hominids around the Red & Med.Sea (Graecopith, Trachilos footprints, Oreopith etc.) + inland along rivers. HPG in Red Sea.
E.Afr.Rift fm split Gorilla & HP c 8 Ma: G followed the rift ->subgenus Praeanthropus Pliocene afarensis ->Pleist.boisei.
Opening of Red Sea c 5 Ma?
- Pan fossil subgenus Australopithecus initially followed the E.Afr.coasts ->Pliocene africanus ->Pleist.robustus // E.Afr.apiths,
- Homo followed the S.Asian coasts ->Peistocene shellfish-diving.
Not sure about ages & direction. I think it likely that apes arose in Asia, which includes the middle east, or even Europe/the Mediterranean as
some have suggested, but I'm quite certain that we got "Old World" vs
"New World" monkeys backwards.
When India first reached Asia (>30 Ma?), India sank underneath Asia (later forming the Himalaya),
it was a rather unique environment: hot & wet islands & forests & shallow waters initially, ideal for bipedally wading & vertically climbing & even surface-swimming aquarboreal primates:
early hoinoids became larger, lost their tail, evolved very wide bodies, sternum (Latisternalia) & thorax & pelvis, with arms & legs also moving laterally.
They adapted to these coastal forests (mangroves?), and when India reached Asia more & more, it split these early hominoids into great apes E & hylobatids W.
The great apes colonized the Tethys Ocean coasal forests to Anatolia & Europe, and when the Mesopotamian Seaway closed (c 15 Ma), hominids lived along the Tethys=Med.Sea & pongids along the Ind.Ocean.
The pongids forced the hylobatids higher into the trees, becoming smaller again etc.
Most hominids died out later - except those in the Red Sea: HPG.
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