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Human Origins - Early Homonids
Early Homonids
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Anthropology
Undergraduate 1
12/04/2014

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Term
There is a place in Egypt where the first monkey ancestors were found.  What is it called?
Definition
Fayum
Term
Paleocene
Definition

65 mya

proto primates

Term
What were the two main proto primates during the Paleocene?
Definition

Agyptopithicus - fat cat

Apidium - fat squirrel

Term
Eocene
Definition

55.8 mya

Promisians

Term
The first true primates were called what?
Definition
Promisians
Term
Oligocene
Definition

33 mya

Cattarhines

Term
Miocene
Definition

23 mya

Monkeys and apes, human ancestors

Term
Pliocene
Definition

5.3 mya

Human ancestor austrolopithicus diversifies

Term
Pleistocene
Definition

1.8 mya

Homo is introduced

Ice Age

Term
Holocene
Definition

.01 mya to present

Humans as we know them

Term
Molecular clock
Definition
Average frequency evolution takes place, found using equation found using Hardy-Weinburg equation.
Term
ancestral traits/primitive traits
Definition
Traits that a species inherited from its ancestors
Term
Derived traits
Definition
Unique traits of a species that it does not share with its immediate ancestors.
Term
Plesiadapiforms
Definition
extinct order of mammals closely related to primates
Term

Proconsul

 

Definition
Earliest primate
Term
How did Platyrrhines get to the NW?
Definition
Rafting?  Antarctic migration?  Island hoping?
Term

victoriapithecus

Place?

Epoch?

Teeth?

Definition

OWM in Kenya

Miocene

Y-5 pattern and parallel teeth cusps

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