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43 Cards in this Set
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Prognathism
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Protruding Jaw
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Foramen magnum
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Where the spine enters the skull/brain
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Platyrrhines
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New World Monkeys
Flat, outward-flaring nostrils |
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Cattarrhines
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Old World Monkeys
Narrow Nostrils |
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Prosimians
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"Pre-monkeys"
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Brachiation
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Swing from branches
Majority of Primates |
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Anthropoids
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Members of the suborder Anthropoidea,
Including monkeys, apes, and humans |
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Diurnal
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Active during the day
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Cathemeral
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Active during night and day
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Terrestrial
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Ground living
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Arboreal
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Tree living
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Petrosal Bulla
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Cheek bone, only some primates and humans have
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Dental Formula
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Quick way of saying how many of each type of tooth a certain species has.
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Small Apes
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Gibbons
Siamangs |
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Large Apes
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Orangutans
Gorillas Chimps Bonobos |
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Pongid
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Pongidae family
Includes: Gorillas, Chimps, and bonobos |
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Fayum Depression
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Area of present-day desert west of Cairo, Egypt, where many important early primate fossils were preserved.
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Contemporary Primates
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All primate groups living today, including humans
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Primatology
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Scientific study of any or all 250+ contemporary primates
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Madagascar
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Lemurs
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Africa
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Loris
Potto Galago |
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Southeast Asia
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Tree Shrew
Tarsier |
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Most Primitive Prosimian
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Tree Shrew
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Primates:
Brain? Hands? Vision? Offspring? Social Life? |
Big Brains
Opposable Thumbs Good vision, can see color 1 young every 4-5 years, long infancy, childhood live in groups |
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Old World Monkeys
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Narrow nostrils
more intelligent more tempermental less teeth Ischial Callosities |
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Ischial Callosities
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"Buttpads"
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Prehensile tail
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Can be used.
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5 types of apes
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Gibben
Orangutan African Apes Gorillas Chimps |
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Man VS Ape
Brain and Posture |
Bigger brain cavity therefore smaller face
Erect, single curve back. |
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Early Miocene Apes
Types and Years |
23-18 mil years ago
Proconsulids Morotopithecus |
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Middle Miocene Apes
Types and Years |
18-10 mil years ago
Sivapithecus Dryopithecus |
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Late Miocene/ Early Pliocene Apes
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1-5 mil years ago
Oreopithecus |
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The Ramapithecus/ Kenyapithecus is what type Miocene Ape?
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Sivapithecus
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Paleocine
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Tree Shrews
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Eocene
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Lemurs and Tarsiers
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Oligocene
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New World and Old World Monkeys
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Pliocene
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Giganto
Oreo |
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Proconsulids
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Earliest Apes
-45 tooth pattern -No tail |
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Morotopithecus
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discovered in '94-'95
-early as 20mil years ago -moving towards brachiation |
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Sivapithecus
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Identified by jaws and teeth
-Quadrupedal and mostly -terrestrial |
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Dryopithecus
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Europe and Africa
-thin molar enamel -Brachiated, most lived in forest areas -ate mainly fruit |
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Oreopithecus
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Italy
similar to Dryo flat face Brachiator |
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Gigantopithecus
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Large asian homonid
9mil - 500,000years ago |