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Primate Classification

Primate Classification. P rimates – monkeys, lemurs, gorillas, chimps, humans, etc. Primates cont. Family Hominoidea (hominid) – great apes (gorilla, orangutans, chimps & bonobos), humans (living and extinct) Hominins – chimps, bonobos, and humans (living and extinct)

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Primate Classification

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  1. Primate Classification Primates – monkeys, lemurs, gorillas, chimps, humans, etc.

  2. Primates cont. • Family Hominoidea (hominid)– great apes (gorilla, orangutans, chimps & bonobos), humans (living and extinct) • Hominins – chimps, bonobos, and humans (living and extinct) • Genus Homo – the humans

  3. Primates • hair or fur • warm-blooded • live young • suckle • infant dependence • social life • play • observation and imitation • pecking order Common Primate Traits

  4. Primate Family Tree Orangutan Crown lemur

  5. Hominin Evolution • Homo habilis (2.0 – 1.6mya) • H. erectus (1.9-70kyBP) • H. neanderthalensis (300-30kyBP) • H. sapiens (200kyBP – present) • ~ 20 different homo species • Human evolution - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Scale: Millions of Years BP

  6. Hominid Evolution

  7. Homo heidelbergensis • Africa into Europe • 500 000 – 300 000 yrs BP • primitive form of language • similar tools/fire as H. erectus • evolved into H. neandertalensis in Europe • evolved into H. sapien in Africa

  8. Homo sapiens • Archaic – 200,000 to 35,000 years BP • Homo sapiens • Modern – 35,000 years BP to present • Anatomically modern • Homo sapiens sapiens

  9. Modern Homo Sapiens • Multiregional Model • Humans evolved more or less simultaneously across the entire Old World from several ancestral populations. • Rapid-Replacement Model (Out of Africa) • Humans evolved only once--in Africa --and then migrated throughout the Europe and Asia, replacing their ancestors • mDNA evidence supports this

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