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... Early Cenozoic may have been due to competition from placental her- bivores , in particular the early rodents . Marsupials . The split between marsupials and placen- tals has yet to be identified with any certainty . Pappother- ium of ...
... Early Cenozoic may have been due to competition from placental her- bivores , in particular the early rodents . Marsupials . The split between marsupials and placen- tals has yet to be identified with any certainty . Pappother- ium of ...
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... Early Tertiary Period . the beginning of the geological phase now called the Tertiary Period - about 65,000,000 years ago there were in existence the most primitive of the primates . So primitive are their anatomical characters as shown ...
... Early Tertiary Period . the beginning of the geological phase now called the Tertiary Period - about 65,000,000 years ago there were in existence the most primitive of the primates . So primitive are their anatomical characters as shown ...
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... early Greeks also repeated the units to nine and probably had various symbols for 10. In Crete , where the early civilization was so much influ- enced by Phoenicia and Egypt , the symbol for 10 was a circle was used for 100 , and a ...
... early Greeks also repeated the units to nine and probably had various symbols for 10. In Crete , where the early civilization was so much influ- enced by Phoenicia and Egypt , the symbol for 10 was a circle was used for 100 , and a ...
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