HUMAN EVOLUTION

Question 1

Misconceptions (3)

Answer 1

1. Our ancestors were chimpanzees or any other modern ape.
    Chimpanzees and humans represent two divergent branches of the
   hominoid tree that evolved from a common ancestor.
2. Human evolution is a direct series of steps leading directly from an
   ancestral hominoid to Homo sapiens.
    Some groups have dead ends.
    Some groups coexisted.
3. Various human characteristics (upright posture and enlarged brain), evolved
   in at the same time.
    Different features evolved at different rates (bipedalism or upright
   posture was first).

Question 2

name all Modern Primates

what were the premonkeys?

what are anthropoids
what’s another

what’s another

Answer 2

1. Prosimians: “premonkeys” (lemurs, tarsiers, etc.)
2. Anthropoids: monkeys, apes and humans
    New (spider, squirrel, capuchin) and old world monkeys (mandrills,
   baboons, rhesus)
    Apes: Gibbons, Orangutans, Gorilla, Pan (chimpanzees, bonobos)
    Humans

Question 3

Hominoid: ?

Answer 3

great apes + humans

Question 4

Hominid :humans

Answer 4

1. australopithecines
2. Homo (genus)