primates

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primates

• characteristics
• five digits on each hand or foot
• unspecialized teeth
• large brains
• binocular vision

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primates

• flexible shoulder joints
• hands and feet which can grasp
• flat finger nails instead of claws

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examples different primates

• Chimps
• Bonobos
• Gorilla
• Orangutan
• Gibbon
• Humans
• Lemurs

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Hominidae (family)

• Characteristics of hominids
• Bipedal
• Rounded jaws
• Large brain cases
• Shorter hips

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Hominid ancestors
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Australopithecus afarensis - East Africa

• Walked upright, small stature 3 foot 7 inches and
  weighed about 30kg (60 lbs.), small brain (400cc)
• Lived 3.2 million years ago

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Lucy

• Is a famous Australopithecus afarensis fossil.
  Nearly complete fossil
• walked upright, had a small brain and lived about
  3.5 million years ago in Africa (Pliocene period)

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Homo habilis

• First ot make tools
• 5ft tall, brain case 500-750 cc
• Lived about 2 million-1.5 million years ago

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Homo erectus

• First to migrate out of Africa
• Migrated to Asia and Europe
• Lived from 1.8 million to 100,000 years ago
• Brain cases from 1000 to 1300 cc (modern man
  1000-1600 cc)
• controlled fire, hunted big game

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Homo heidelbergensis

• Found in Ethiopia
• 130,000 years ago
• Some skulls look like a transition between Homo
  sapiens

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Early Homo sapiens
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Homo sapiens Neanderthals

• (Homo neanderthals)
• Evolved around 200,000 years ago and lived to as
  recently as 35,000 years ago.
• Traveled, buried their dead, made stone tools,
  made musical instruments
• Several species of Homo lived at the same time in
  the past

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Cro-Magnon(Homo sapiens sapiens)

• entered Eurasia about 100,000 years ago
• cranial size above 1300cc
• painted caves in France, made advance stone tools

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