Dictionary of Human Evolution and Biology

Dictionary of Human Evolution and Biology

Savanna

Type of vegetation zone characterized by grasslands with low shrubs and scattered trees. Food resources tend to be patchy in such zones. Low-latitude grasslands first became prolific during the Miocene, and were exploited by early apes such as Proconsul. Also spelled savannah.

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Chlorocebus Gray, 1870 (Monotypic catarrhine genus to which the savanna guenons belong. Taxonomy equivocal; some workers ...)
centripedal primate group (A group of terrestrial primates (e.g. savanna baboons) that cannot flee into trees when ...)
Cercopithecoides Mollett, 1947 (Genus of colobine monkeys known from the Pliocene of Africa; two species. Estimated body mass ...)
Dinopithecus ingens Broom, 1937 (Species of cercopithecine from the Pleistocene of South Africa; monotypic; many workers think ...)
dopamine intelligence hypothesis (... chase-hunting on the savannas of sub-Saharan Africa.)