Elton Sarah
Hull York Medical School, University of Hull, Hull, UK.
Folia Primatol (Basel). 2007;78(5-6):344-64. doi: 10.1159/000105149. Epub 2007 Sep 7.
Modern Old World monkeys live in an array of habitats, an ability that was established early in their evolutionary history. The Old World monkey radiation is commonly correlated with the general trend of climatic cooling in the Neogene and the associated increase in open habitats. However, although they became more abundant and speciated extensively in the very late Miocene, Pliocene and Pleistocene, many of the major events in cercopithecoid evolution occurred before the onset of the late Miocene long cooling period. In the Plio-Pleistocene, regional environmental change and interspecific competition probably influenced the radiations of the Old World monkeys in Africa much more than did global climatic patterns. In southern Africa, the evolution of the monkey community is tied to Pleistocene increases in grassland and open habitats. In East Africa, the more diverse cercopithecid fauna reflects the presence of a wider variety of habitats, including forest, woodland and grassland.
现代旧世界猴生活在一系列栖息地中，这种能力在它们进化历史的早期就已确立。旧世界猴的辐射通常与新近纪气候变冷的总体趋势以及相关的开阔栖息地增加有关。然而，尽管它们在晚中新世、上新世和更新世变得更加丰富且广泛分化，但许多猕猴类进化中的重大事件发生在晚中新世长期变冷期开始之前。在更新世 - 上新世，区域环境变化和种间竞争对非洲旧世界猴辐射的影响可能远大于全球气候模式。在非洲南部，猴类群落的进化与更新世草原和开阔栖息地的增加相关。在东非，种类更多样的猕猴科动物群反映了包括森林、林地和草原在内的更广泛的栖息地的存在。
