During the scene with Amelia in the biology lab, Wei-Chen has an affinity to the teacher's lipstick-wearing monkey, who will not leave him alone. Wei-Chen can easily recognize that the monkey is actually a male, just as the monkey can actually recognize that Wei-Chen is a monkey himself.
Did the first vertebrates evolve during the mesozoic era? No. The 1st vertebrates appeared in the fossil record about 525 million years ago during the Cambrian Period.
Trilobite fossil from the Cambrian Period. Photo Credit: Archbob. The first period in the Paleozoic Era is known as the Cambrian Period. Many of the ancestors of the species that have evolved into what we know today first came into existence during the Cambrian Explosion in the early Cambrian Period.