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Primates A. Primate : group of mammals that include lemurs, monkeys, apes, and humans

Primates A. Primate : group of mammals that include lemurs, monkeys, apes, and humans. 1. arboreal : live in trees 2. flexible shoulder & hip joints. p. 430 3. Opposable thumbs 4. Vision 5. Brain volume 6. Arm movement 7. Flexible joints 8. Feet. B. Primate origin

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Primates A. Primate : group of mammals that include lemurs, monkeys, apes, and humans

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  1. Primates A. Primate: group of mammals that include lemurs, monkeys, apes, and humans

  2. 1. arboreal: live in trees 2. flexible shoulder & hip joints

  3. p. 430 3. Opposable thumbs 4. Vision 5. Brain volume 6. Arm movement 7. Flexible joints 8. Feet

  4. B. Primate origin 1. Prosimianlike primates a. small, present-day b. lemurs, aye-ayes, tarsier c. tropical forests

  5. d. Purgatorius – earliest primate fossil, resembling a squirrel that lived 66 million years ago 2. Humanlike primates a. anthropoids

  6. b. monkeys & hominoids 1) apes & humans c. complex brains, larger, different skeletal features, more upright posture

  7. d. New World monkeys 1) prehensile tail used as 5th limb e. Old World monkeys 1) larger, no prehensile tail, live on ground or trees

  8. f. Hominoids: lack tails 1) apes: long, muscled forelimbs for climbing, live in social groups 2) humans: larger brain, walk upright a) 37-40 millions years

  9. II. Human Ancestry • 5-8 million years ago in Africa • Hominids / African apes • Few fossils; DNA evidence

  10. b. bipedal B. Scientists of interest 1. Raymond Dart a. 1924 discovered a young hominid – Australopithecus meaning “southern ape of Africa” b. 1-2 million years old

  11. c. foramen magnum: opening in the skull through which the spinal cord passes as it leaves the brain

  12. d. australopithecine: early hominids that lived in Africa & apelike & humanlike characteristics

  13. 2. Donald Johanson a. 1974 found oldest known & nearly complete australopithecine 1) “Lucy” 2) 3-5 million years ago (p. 440

  14. C. Modern humans 1. 1964 Louis & Mary Leakey found humanlike skull a. classified in genus homo b. Homo habilis “handy man”

  15. 2. Homo erectus “upright man” a. larger brain & a more humanlike face

  16. 3. archaic Homo sapiens a. Neanderthals 1) 35,000 – 100,000 2) lived in caves, larger brains, religious views, spoken language

  17. b. Cro-Magnons: possible decendents of modern humans 1) 35,000- 40,000 Rd. p. 448 – The Land Bridge to the New World

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