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21 Cards in this Set
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Mammary Glands
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Produce milk.
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Monotremes
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Small group of egg-laying mammals consisting of echidnas and platypus.
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Marsupials
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Opossums, kangarros, and koalas.
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Marsupium
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Where underdeveloped young of marsupials complete their embryonic development.
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Bandicoots
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Have marsupium that open to the rear of the mother's body opposed to the front.
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Eutherians
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Placental mammals.
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Primates
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Lemurs, tarsiers, monkeys, and apes
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Lemurs
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Madagascar
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Lorises and Pottos
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Tropical Africa and Southern Asia
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Tarsiers
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Southeast Asia
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Anthropoids
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Monkeys and hominids
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Old World Monkeys
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Nostrils pointing down and if they have tails they are nongrasping ones.
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New World Monkeys
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Nostrils pointing to the side and have grasping tails.
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Hominoids
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Apes
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Paleoanthropology
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The study of human origins.
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Australopiths
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Human like ancestors.
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Bipedalism
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Walking on two legs.
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Homo Habilis
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Earliest fossils of Homo genus.
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Homo Ergaster
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First fully bipedal hominid.
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Homo Erectus
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First hominid to leave Africa.
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Neanderthals
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Were thought to be living at the same time as Homo sapiens.
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