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The surviving tropical population of primates, which is seen most completely in the upper Eocene and lowermost Oligocene fossil beds of the Faiyum depression southwest of Cairo, gave rise to all living species — lemurs of Madagascar, lorises of Southeast Asia, galagos or " bush babies " of Africa, and the anthropoids: platyrrhine or New World monkeys, catarrhines or Old World monkeys, and the great apes, including humans.
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They inhabit tropical forests of Southeast Asia and South and Central America, and include the largest surviving land animals of the latter two regions.
A variety of habitats are used by the family from tropical rainforest to deserts, although few species are capable of surviving at very low temperatures.
Cryptozoologists often identify the mapinguari, a mythical forest creature of the upper Amazon basin, with a surviving tropical ground sloth or folk memory of these animals.
It survives best in hot, damp tropical climates but will grow in the subtropics, surviving temperatures down to just above freezing.
They probably evolved from hamster-like animals in tropical Asia some time in the early Miocene, and to have only subsequently produced species capable of surviving in cooler climes.
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It is home to the only surviving population of the endemic, and endangered, Cocos Buff-banded Rail.
The Industrial Revolution led to a population increase, but the chances of surviving childhood did not improve throughout the Industrial Revolution ( although infant mortality rates were reduced markedly ).
The ABA Checklist Committee has not changed the status of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker from Code 6 ( EXTINCT ) to another level that would reflect a small surviving population.
If this color change is advantageous, the chance of this butterfly surviving and producing its own offspring are a little better, and over time the number of butterflies with this mutation may form a larger percentage of the population.
If an organism lives half as long as others of its species, but has twice as many offspring surviving to adulthood, its genes will become more common in the adult population of the next generation.
Over time, individuals who exhibited such protective behaviours would have had more surviving offspring than did those who did not display such behaviours, such that this parental protection would increase in frequency in the population.
The surviving subspecies, in descending order of wild population, are:
As seen in the surviving episode " The Frighteners ", Steed also had helpers among the population who provided information, similar to the " Baker Street Irregulars " of Sherlock Holmes.
No efforts are made to bury the dead as the surviving population is too weak for manual labour.
In the course of the meeting, Heydrich presented a plan, presumably approved by Adolf Hitler, for the deportation of the Jewish population of Europe and French North Africa ( Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia ) to German-occupied areas in eastern Europe, and the use of the Jews fit for labour on road-building projects, in the course of which they would eventually die according to the text of the Wannsee Protocol, the surviving remnant to be annihilated after completion of the projects.
Despite these measures and others, the European bison population continued to decline over the following century, with only Białowieża and Northern Caucasus populations surviving into the 20th century.
However, if the number surviving exceeds unity on average, the bacterial population undergoes exponential growth.
The entire surviving dwarven population became refugees in the lands west of the Cloudspine, known as the Province.
Thirty percent of the population was affected by malaria, and the average income was only $ 639 per year, with some families surviving on as little as $ 100 per year.
The barbarians were Romanized and surviving veterans were established in areas requiring population.
Molecular genetics study suggests that surviving Amerindian populations derived from a theoretical single founding population, possibly from only 50 to 70 genetic contributors Preliminary research, restricted to only 9 genomic regions ( or loci ) have shown a genetic link between original Americas and Asia populations.
On 1 January 2007, Medemblik merged with the municipalities of Noorder-Koggenland and Wognum, yet retained its own name in the surviving municipality, even though it was the smallest of the three in population.
A great number of surviving towns in Teruel province have only a residual population, reviving somewhat during the summer when city-dwellers spend their holidays there.
Some 22 % of surviving young either remained on the island, or returned at maturity to join the breeding population.
Cordelia finds herself in an alternate universe where The Master has risen to the surface and completely taken over the town, with the surviving human population living in terror of the vampires.
At this time, Martinique's population numbered some 5, 000 settlers and a few surviving Carib Indians.
More research seems warranted, but at any rate the Cape Verde population is effectively extinct since 2000, all surviving birds being hybrids with Black Kites ( which merely raises further questions about their taxonomic status ).
The surviving Tatar population was moved to a place away from the city and this place was forcibly settled by Russian farmers and soldiers.
The decline in population left surviving workers in great demand in the agricultural economy of Britain.
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Proof of concept trials have indicated that Ebola-targeted siRNAs may be effective as post-exposure prophylaxis in humans, with 100 % of non-human primates surviving a lethal dose of Zaire Ebolavirus, the most lethal strain.
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Prokofieff might well emerge as a cultural hero, who, by the force of his creative life, helped preserve the main stream of tradition, to which the surviving idioms of current experimentalism may be eventually added and integrated.
According to the fossil record, Lissamphibia, which includes all modern amphibians and is the only surviving lineage, may have branched off from the extinct groups Temnospondyli and Lepospondyli at some period between the Late Carboniferous and the Early Triassic.
The aardvark is not closely related to the pig ; rather, it is the sole recent representative of the obscure mammalian order Tubulidentata, in which it is usually considered to form one variable species of the genus Orycteropus, the sole surviving genus in the family Orycteropodidae.
" The most detailed surviving description of Agathon is in the Thesmophoriazousae, in which Agathon appears as a pale, clean-shaven young man dressed in women's clothes.
The sole surviving manuscript from which almost every other is derived is a ninth-century Carolingian text, V, produced in Fulda from an insular exemplar.
Salamis holds a prominent place in The Persians, his oldest surviving play, which was performed in 472 BC and won first prize at the Dionysia.
However, Mary II died childless in 1694, after which William III did not remarry, and Princess Anne's last surviving child, Prince William, Duke of Gloucester, died six years later, after which it was unlikely she would have any more children due to her age and the large number of miscarriages she had previously suffered.
Schloss Charlottenburg, which was burnt out in the Second World War and largely destroyed, has been rebuilt and is the largest surviving historical palace in Berlin.
The world's oldest surviving bowling green is the Southampton Old Bowling Green, which was first used in 1299.
The oldest surviving manuscripts of Isaiah are two scrolls found among the Dead Sea Scrolls: dating from about a century before the time of Jesus, they are substantially identical with the Masoretic version which forms the basis of most modern English-language versions of the book.
Researchers have pointed out that the reproductive strategy of the surviving nautiloids, which rely upon few and larger eggs, played a role in outsurviving their ammonoid counterparts through the extinction event.
The archosaur clade includes two living orders, crocodilians ( of which Alligatoridae, Crocodylidae and Gavialidae are the only surviving families ) and dinosaurs ( of which birds are the sole surviving members ), along with the extinct non-avian dinosaurs and pterosaurs.
All of the surviving families of crocodyliforms inhabited freshwater and terrestrial environments — except for the Dyrosauridae, which lived in freshwater and marine locations.
T contains 195 surviving cantigas ( 8 are missing due to loss of folios ) which roughly correspond in order to the first two hundred in E, each song being illustrated with either 6 or 12 miniatures that depict scenes from the cantiga.
One of his earliest surviving works, under the guidance of his anatomy teacher, Dimitrie Gerota, is a masterfully rendered écorché ( statue of a man with skin removed to reveal the muscles underneath ) which was exhibited at the Romanian Athenaeum in 1903.
This slaughter forced the tiny surviving Party to switch from a workers ' union-to a peasant, guerilla-based organization, and to seek the aid of the most heterodox sources: from " patriotic capitalists " to the dreaded KMT itself, with which it openly sought to participate in a coalition government, even after the Japanese general surrender in 1945.
* Commodore ( shipwreck ), a steamer lost to a maritime disaster in 1897 that occurred off the coast of Daytona Beach, Florida, of which American novelist Stephen Crane was a surviving passenger
The earliest surviving European examples are the Argonautica of Apollonius of Rhodes and Virgil's Aeneid, which follow both the style and subject matter of Homer.
The earliest surviving home in which Poe lived is in Baltimore, preserved as the Edgar Allan Poe House and Museum.
There is a surviving report of the ceremony by Widukind of Corvey which makes no mention of his wife having been crowned at this point, but according to Thietmar of Merseburg's chronicle Eadgyth was nevertheless anointed as queen, albeit in a separate ceremony.
However, today this term has come to include " any music for which a historically appropriate style of performance must be reconstructed on the basis of surviving scores, treatises, instruments and other contemporary evidence.
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