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Group of primates that includes monkeys, apes, and humans
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anthropoid
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Living in trees
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arboreal
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One of several species of Australopithecus, a genus that contains the first generally recognized hominids
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australopithecine
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Walking erect on two feet
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bipedalism
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Common name for the first fossils to be designated Homo sapiens
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Cro-Magnon
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Total pattern of human behavior; includes technology and the arts, and is dependent upon the capacity to speak and transmit knowledge.
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culture
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Member of the family Hominidae, which contains australopithecines and humans.
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hominid
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Member of the superfamily Hominoidea, which includes apes, humans, and their recent ancestors.
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hominoid
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Hominid who used fire and migrated out of Africa to Europe and Asia.
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Homo erectus
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Idea that the rate at which mutational changes accumulate in certain genes is constant over time and is not involved in adaptation to the environment.
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molecular clock
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Concept that human characteristics did not evolve at the same rate; for example, some body parts are more humanlike than others in early hominids.
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mosaic evolution
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Proposal that modern humans evolved separately in at least three different places: Asia, Africa, and Europe.
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multiregional continuity hypothesis
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Hominid with a sturdy build that lived during the last Ice Age in Europe and the Middle East; hunted large game and left evidence of being culturally advanced.
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Neandertal
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Proposal that modern humans originated only in Africa; then they migrated and supplanted populations of Homo in Asia and Europe about 100,000 years ago.
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out-of-Africa hypothesis
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Member of the order Primate; includes prosimians, monkeys, apes, and hominids, all of whom have adaptations for living in trees.
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primate
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Group of primates that include lemurs and tarsiers, and may resemble the first primates to have evolved.
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prosimian
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