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 | | In contrast, the subfamily Cercopithecinae, containing the baboons, macaques, guenons, and others, is largely African, with two genera, Papio and Macaca, also occurring in Asia, the latter being widespread. |
 | | Opposability is an adaptation for grasping and for the finer manipulation of objects; it also permits eating with one hand, in contrast to the manner of rodents or other animals that must hold food with two hands. |
 | | Two specimens, a frontal bone and an isolated tooth, are known from the 19-million-year-old site at Napak, Uganda, and have been claimed to show that the two cercopithecoid subfamilies, Cercopithecinae (represented by the molar) and Colobinae (represented by the frontal), were already in existence at that time; this is far from certain, however. |
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