lecture 25 Amniotes part 3

Question 1

What are the most well known members of the Order Primates?

Answer 1

monkeys apes and humans

Question 2

What is the defining characteristic of Primates?

Answer 2

They have a thumb and their toes are widely separated
They have flat nails
They have forward facing eyes
They have pentadactyl appendages

Question 3

What is an example of a primarily diurnal anthropoid?

Answer 3

Monkeys and apes

also humans

Question 4

Where are Lemurs now and how did they get there?

Answer 4

They are from Madagascar and go there by rafting on mats of vegetation from mainland Africa

Question 5

new world Monkeys are mostly ________

Answer 5

Arboreal

Question 6

Old world monkeys were mostly _______&______

Answer 6

Arboreal and terrestrial

Question 7

what are the Hominidae?

Answer 7

the great apes

Question 8

What are homo?

Answer 8

Humans

Question 9

What are Pongo?

Answer 9

orangutans

Question 10

What are pan?

Answer 10

chimps

Question 11

What are gorilla

Answer 11

gorillas

Question 12

What are the closest living relatives to homo?

Answer 12

Chimps and bonobos

Question 13

How genetically close are pan to homo?

Answer 13

99%

only 19 regulatory genes different

Question 14

What are the main characteristics of Humans?

Answer 14

Bipedalism
Flexable opposable thumb
large brain

Question 15

What is the only extant species of Homo?

Answer 15

H. sapiens

Question 16

How far back was bipedalism as thing for homo?

Answer 16

3.5 mya

Question 17

The pelvic structire of Ardipithecus ramidus suggests what?

Answer 17

They walked upright too

Question 18

Where is the earliest evidence of Homo sp?

Answer 18

in Africa

we think they made stone tools

Question 19

What is cool about homo ergaster?

Answer 19

Smaller teeth

may have cooked food

Question 20

Who was the first to leave Africa

Answer 20

homo erectus

they went to Asia

Question 21

What are the is the next more recent homo?

Answer 21

Homo neanderthalensis

Question 22

What were neanderthals named after?

Answer 22

a cave

Question 23

True or false:

some people have a hybridization of H.sapiens and H. neanderthalensis

Answer 23

True

Question 24

Are humans morphologicaly diverse>?

Answer 24

yes

Question 25

is the idea of clear-cut races outmoded?

Answer 25

yes