2. Primates

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Major Groups of Living Mammals:

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A. Monotremes
B. Therians

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Major Groups of Living Mammals

Monotremes are found today in__1___ and __2__, unlike any other mammals, they ___3____

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1. Australia
2. New Guinea
3. lay eggs

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Monotremes have a ______ skeleton

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1. Sprawled

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Examples of Living Monotremes:

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1. Duckbill Platypus
2. Spiny Anteater

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Major Groups of Living Mammals

Two groups of Therians:

They have what kind of birth?

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1. Marsupials
2. Placentals

Live Birth

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Marsupials are __1__ mammals ,give birth to young__2__.

The young are nursed with thier __3__ until they can survive on their own

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1.Pouched
2. early
3. pouch

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Today marsupials live on three continents:

What route?

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1. South America
2. North America
3. Austrilia

South America--> Antartica--> Austrila

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Australia has been isolated through most of Tertiary history, so it formed a natural
laboratory for ___1__ of marsupials

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1. Adaptive Radiation

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2. Placentals

the__1__ group of mammals
They developed __2__ which allows the young to remain with the body of the mother longer

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1. largest
2. placenta

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Placental radiations include: (4 Different Mammals)

examples

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1.terrestrial and aboreal animals
2. Fighted animals (bats)
3. Marine mammals ( porpoises, whales, seals, manatees)
4. Humans

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Whale origin:

Whales evolved from ___1___ mammals.

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1. terrestrial

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Whale origin:

Transistional whale fossils have been discovered in rocks of __1___(time period)

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1. Early Cenozoic age

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In what region are the earliest and most basal whales found?

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Southern Asia, palcestan

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Some of the earliest whales were fully __1__ and better at walking on land than swimming in the water. Others seem to have been aquatic but still had __2__.

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1. quadrupedal
2. well-developed limbs

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DNA-sequencing studies of living whales have allied them to what group of mammals?

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artiodactyls- even toed mammals

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artiodactyls

Living examples of this group include:

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Even Toed

1. pigs
2. hippos
3. camels
4. deers

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Primate evolution

Signifigence:

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Characters that define the various primate groups are useful because they help us to
understand the sequence in which many characters that we consider human evolve

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Primate Evolution

Development of__1___ is important in the way humans manipulate objects, actually occurs in all primates.

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1. Opposable Thumb

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Primate Evolution:

Loss of __1__ occurs in all hominoids (apes/ humans)

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1. tail

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Primate characters: (6)

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1. Postorbital bar
2. opposable big toe and thumb
3. nails mostly replace claws
4. beginning of visual overlap
5. larger brain
6. loss of one incisor and one premolar on each side

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Primates generally are thought to be adapted to ___1__ life.

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1. Arboreal

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Define euprimates

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primate groups with surviving descendents

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Major groups of living euprimates

Offshoot group

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1. Strepsirhines
2. Tarsiers
3. Platyrrhini
4. Cercopithecoidea
5. Hylobatidae
6. Ponginae
7. Gorilla (Gorilla), Chimpanzee (Pan)

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Major groups of living euprimates

All other primates

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1.Haplorhines
2. Anthropoidea
3. Catarrhini
4. Hominoidea
5. Hominidae
6. Homininae
7.Hominini

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Major groups of living euprimates

Offshoot group

1. Strepsirhines include

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leamurs and lorises

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Major groups of living euprimates

Offshoot group

2. Tarsiers are...

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adopted for climbing and leaping

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Major groups of living euprimates

Offshoot group

3. Platyrrhini includes

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new world monkeys
(maomosets, Squrrel)

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Major groups of living euprimates

Offshoot group

4. Cercopithecoidea includes

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old world monkeys
(baboons, macaques)

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Major groups of living euprimates

Offshoot group

5. Hylobatidae includes

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gibbons

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Major groups of living euprimates

Offshoot group

6. Ponginae includes

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orangutans

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Major groups of living euprimates

All other primates

1.Haplorhines have

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1. nostrils with complete meurguns
2. Skull almost closed behind eye

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Major groups of living euprimates

All other primates

2. Anthropoidea have

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1. Skull completely closed behind the eye
2. More of a plant diet

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Major groups of living euprimates

All other primates

3. Catarrhini have

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lost of premolar (as in humans)

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Major groups of living euprimates

All other primates

4. Hominoidea includes

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1. Humans and apes
( lost the tail, more mobile shoulder joint)

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Major groups of living euprimates

All other primates

5. Hominidae includes

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1. great apes and humans

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Major groups of living euprimates

All other primates

6. Homininae includes

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1. african apes and humans
(Knuckle walking adaptations)

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Major groups of living euprimates

All other primates

7.Hominini includes

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humans and extint relatives

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First Euprimates appeared

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55 million years ago

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First Anthropoids appeared
(monkeys/apes/humans)

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35 million years ago

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First Hominoids appeared
(ape/human lineage)

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25 million years ago

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First Hominins appeared
(humans and extinct relatives)

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7 million years ago

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Seven million years ago marks the approximate split between the __1__and __2__ lineages.

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1. chimpanzee
2. Hominini