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| The mammalian order, ___, includes: lemurs, tarsiers, monkeys, and apes |
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| lemurs, tarsiers, monkeys and apes |
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| The mammalian order, Primates, includes: |
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| Humans are a type of ___. |
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– A large brain
– Forward-looking eyes
– complex social behavior
– A fully opposable thumb |
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| What are the derived characters of primates? |
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| nocturnal climbers hunting prey at night like owls |
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| What may have our early ancestors have been like? |
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| There are ___ main groups of living primates. |
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– The Lemuroidea, which includes the lemurs of Madagascar and the lorises and pottos of southern Asia and tropical Africa
- the carnivorous tarsiers of Southeast Asia
- the anthropoids, which include monkeys and apes |
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| What are the three main groups of living primates? |
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| Only ___ monkeys have prehensile tails |
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| The other group of anthropoids, the ___ are the apes |
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| Orangutans live in ____ and ____. |
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| Bonobos survive only in ___. |
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| Gibbons, Orangutans, Gorillas, Bonobos, and Chimpanzees |
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| What are the different types of apes? |
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| Our ancestors are not ____. |
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| Chimpanzees and humans are ___ branches of the ape tree. |
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| Homo sapiens is about ___ years old |
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| Life has existed on earth for about ___ years. |
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– Upright posture and bipedal locomotion
– Shortened jaw
– Larger brains
– Complex tools |
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| What are the characteristics that distinguish humans from other hominoids? |
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| It is a ___ to imagine human evolution as a ladder leading directly to Homo sapiens |
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| Scientists have discovered fossils of approximately ___ of extinct hominoids |
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| The other hominoid species are ___ closely related to us than chimpanzees. |
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| Hominids originated in ___, approximately ___ years ago. |
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| Early hominids had a ___ size brain, but walked ___. |
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| ___ are a group of hominid species that lived between 4 million and 2 million years ago |
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| Some hominid species walked ___ and had ___ hands and teeth |
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| give an example of one of the discoveries that shows that some of the hominid species walked upright. |
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| cut marks on animal bones |
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| What is the oldest evidence of tool use? |
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| How old is the earliest evidence of tool use? |
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| Some of the cut marks showing the earliest evidence of tool use are found on ___ bones. |
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| Homo habilis; 2.4 to 1.6 million years |
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| The earliest fossils that paleoanthropologists place in our genus are hose of ___ ranging in age from about ___ to ___ years. |
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| ___ have been found with H. habilis, giving this species its name, which means "handy man" |
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| Homo habilis' name means ___ because of stone axes found with it. |
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| ___ was the first fully bipedal large-brained hominid. |
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| homo ergaster; 1.9 and 1.6 million years ago |
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| ___ coexisted with H habilis between ___ and ___ years ago in Africa |
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| Homo erectus; 1.8 million |
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| ___ was the first species to colonize other continents. The global migration began about ___ years ago. |
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| lived in Europe form 200,000 to 30,000 years ago. |
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| Were large hominids with larger brains than our own |
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| Became extinct within a few thousand years after the arrival of Homo sapiens in Europe. |
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| Appeared in Africa at least 160,000 years ago and began colonizing the world beyond Africa about 50,000 years ago. |
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| Everywhere they went they began slaughtering other species. |
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