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Title: Primate Evolution


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Primate Evolution
  • Prosimians (40 million years ago)
  • -grasping fingers and toes
  • -binocular vision
  • -lemurs are modern prosimians
  • Apes, monkeys (Anthropoids)
  • monkeys even better vision than prosimians
  • -opposable thumb
  • -complex social behavior
  • -learning (extended parental care)
  • -large brains
  • apes hominoids (15 million years ago)
  • Hominids -humans and extinct ancestors
  • - bipedal, larger brains
  • (extensive use of tools,
    language)

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  • -Australopithecus
  • -Homo habilis
  • -Homo erectus
  • -Homo sapiens (500,000 years ago)
  • Homo sapiens sapiens (modern humans)

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