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Cards Term Tarsiers Definition large tarsal bones, eat meat, nocturnal Term Strepsirhine Definition prosimii without Tarsiers. tooth comb, torpor Term Indrids Definition turn in mid-air, eaten by fusa Term Aye-aye Definition nocturnal, big ears, slim middle finger Term All lorises are.. Definition nocturnal Term Guenons Definition arboreal, mixed group travel, mixed species forage Term Vervet Definition green monkey, multi-male group, male dominance- grooming Term Talopions Definition neotonic, riverline forest, swim, sexes forage seperately Term Patas Monkey Definition grassland, 35 mph, eat on the move Term Red Colobine Definition estral swelling, sympatric w/ BW Term Homology Definition symplesimorphy, chimp/human hands Term Analogy Definition wings of birds and bats Term Lyle Definition mass extinction, "deep time" Term Synapomorphy Definition shared, derived Term Teilhardia Definition eocene, Adapoidea and Omomyoidea Term Archeolemur Definition fused mandible, bilophodont molars Term 1st anthropoid Definition Biretia or Catopithecus Term Aegyptopithecus Definition oligocene, between monkeys and apes Term Proconsuloidea Definition dental apes, Y-5 Term kenyapithecus Definition miocene, ape jaws Term shivapithecus Definition ancestor to apes Term gluteus maximus Definition apes- abducter, humans-extensor Term sahelanthropos Definition 350 cc, crests, possible 1st hominoid Term aridipithecus Definition long humerous, thin enamel caps Term australopithecus Definition thick enamel Term lucy and footprints Definition pliocene, 550 cc, a. afarensis, parallel teeth row Term black skull Definition 410 cc, converge teeth, paranthropos Term a. garhi Definition link between austrolpithecus and homo Term h. floresciensis Definition hobbits, island Term neanderthals Definition sloping forehead, large nose, mousterian culture Term orangutans Definition infants cling, crenulations on teeth, arboreal Term gorillas Definition lowland-trees, f-f highland-ground dwelling Term gibbons Definition brachiators Term paleocene primates.. Definition pleisiadapiformes Term primate radiation when? Definition paleocene Term plesiadapiformes Definition plesiadapids and carpolestids--nails, don't leap, fiber teeth Term 2 parts of pangea Definition N-Laurasia S- Gondwanaland Term prosimii includes.. Definition lemurs, loris, tarsiers Term Playtorini are the.. Definition NW monkeys Term Lorises.. Definition african=galagos, noctural, jump and pottos-can't jump asia=slender loris and slow loris Term Madagascar Definition true lemur, indirs, aye aye, cheirogalids Term trigun Definition upper molar, points to tongue Term playtyrhini include Definition pithecus, callicebinae, aotines, atelines, cebinae, callitrichines Term cercopithecines Definition cheek pouches Term colobines Definition leaf eaters, complex stomach Term macaques Definition mixed species foraging, fem hierarchy, 44 chromosones, dont leap Term managbeys Definition cercopithecus and lophocebus Term cercocebus Definition mandrills/drills, swamps, super group Term baboons Definition savannahs, estral swelling, tubers, terrestrial Term atelines Definition howlers, spider, woolly, woolly-spider, schizodactally, fingerprint tail Term aotines Definition night monkey, 1 cone, canopy fruit, owls, dawn duet Term callicebinae Definition titi monkey, no prehnesile, jump, monogamous, carries young Term pithecines Definition sakis, bearded sakis, and uakeries Term woolly spider Definition sexually dimorphic in size, larg talonid basin Term cebus Definition nuts, prehensile tail, opposable thumb Term saimiri Definition non opposable thumb, no prehensile, precocious infant Term callitrichines Definition callimico, tamarins, marmosets. eat gum, fruit, claws on all but great toe. tamarins-monogamous, marmosets-polyandry Term asian colobine Definition odd-nosed and langur Term hanuman langur Definition eat seated, females related, long feet Term presbytis Definition banded infants, monogamous, duets Term trachypihtecus Definition orange infants, swamps, unripe fruit Term proboscis monkey Definition 1/2 leaves 1/2 fruit. rivers Term golden monkey Definition blue face, fir forest, eats lichen Term ape features.. Definition broad nose, Y-5, no tail Term great apes, lesser apes Definition gorillas, orangutans gibbons, siamangs Term asian v. african apes Definition africa- over congo= chimps, gorillas under congo= bonobos asia=gibbons, siamangs, oragutans