By JOSEPH LELYVELD. Author of 'On the Road' was Hero to Youth--Rejected Middle-Class Values ack Kerouac, the novelist who named the Beat Generation and exuberantly celebrated its rejection of middle-class American conventions, died early yesterday of massive abdominal hemorrhaging in a St. Petersburg, Fla., hospital. He was 47 years old.
Primates are relative newcomers on our planet. The earliest ones are found in the fossil record dating to 50-55 million years ago. These first prosimians thrived during the Eocene Epoch. There were no monkeys or apes for them to compete with yet.he first true primates evolved by 55 million years ago or a bit earlier, near the beginning of the Eocene Epoch. Their fossils have been found in North America, Europe, and Asia. They looked different from the primates today.
ANTHROPOID PRIMATES. The earliest group of anthropoid primates are the Oligopithecines known from the Late Eocene which include Oligopithecus savagei, Catopithecus browni, and Proteopithecus sylviae.Fossils of teeth are similar to those primates which feed on insects and fruit.n Catopithecus, there was sexual dimorphism in the canine structure, a trait which is unknown in prosimians. Unlike most other Eocene primates, the roots of the central upper incisors fit closely like those of the anthropoids. In Catopithecus, there is the first appearance of anthropoid-like suture in the lower jaw.