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15 Cards in this Set
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Toumai
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-Now fossil find that pushed back earliest human ancestor found
-Dated to 6-7mya. When humans and chimps would have been splitting adult male chimp size brain flat human like face canine tooth is shorter and tooth enamel is thicker than chimpanzee |
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Lemurs
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-Found in Madagascar and Southeastern coast of Africa
-Size ranges from mouse like to 4ft. -Locomotion is by vertical clinging and leaping -Female dominance in group -Easts mostly fruits, leaves, bark, flowers |
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Lorises
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-Found in Southeast Asia and some parts of Africa
-All are nocturnal -Locomotion is both vertical clinging and leaping for Bushbabies and slow quadrupedal movement for lorises -Easts mostly Fruits and Insects |
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Tarsiers
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-Found in the Philippines and Indonesia
-Have excellent night vision -Eat more meat than plants -Locomotion is vertical clinging and leaping -Less dependence on smell more on vision -Easts mostly meat/insects -Taxonomy is not clearly classified |
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Pleistocene= 1.6mya-11,000 yrs
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early homo emerges
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Anthropoid infra orders
Platyrrhines |
-new world(americas) monkeys (south america, central america)
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Anthropoid infra orders
Catarrhines |
-old world(europe, africa, asia) monkeys, apes, humans
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Paleozoic era
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(250-545mya)-ancient life-fishes, amphibians, primitive reptiles-first of different organisms, etc
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Mesozoic era
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(250-65mya)-reptiles, dinosaurs-big everything
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Cenozoic era
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(65mya-current)-birds, mammals
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Paleocene= 65-55mya
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major mammal radiation
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Eocene= 55-35mya
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modern orders of primates appear; prosimian like and anthropoid like by late Eocene
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Oligocene= 35-25mya
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anthropoids in Africa; separation of Catarrhines &Platyrrhines
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Miocene= 25-5mya
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emergence of Afropithecus, Ramapithecus, Sivapithecus
Proconsul or early apes |
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Pliocene=5-1.6mya
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early hominids emerge
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