Test 2 Flashcards

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Platyrrhini

A

NWM

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2
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Catrrhini

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OWM

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3
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Tarsiiformes

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infraorder
SE asia
Nocturnal
Vertical clinging and leaping

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4
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Anthropoidea

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infraoder to Haplorhini

monkeys, apes, humans

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5
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catarrhini

A

OW monkeys and apes

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6
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hylobatidae

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lesser apes

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7
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bilophodont pattern

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4 cusps

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8
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diastema

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space or gap between canine and adjacent tooth

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9
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honing

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when the canine is sharpened in diastema

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10
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calvarium

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skull minus lower jaw

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11
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mandible

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lower jaw
lemurs and lorises- 2 jaws
tarsiers, apes and monkeys- 1

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12
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postcranium

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everything but skeleton

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13
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axial skeleton

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everything attached to the backbone

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14
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appendicular skeleton

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everything not touching the backbone

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15
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who uses quadropedalism

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orangs, gorillas, chimp

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16
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pan troglodytes

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chimps

east africa

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17
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pan paniscus

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Bonobo

Zaire

18
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polyandry

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females with more than 1 male

19
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polygyny

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male has more than 1 female

20
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Arboreal Hypothesis

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G Elliot Smith

primate adaptions evolved from life in trees

21
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Visual Predation Hypothesis

A

Matt Cartmill

binocular vision so they could accurately judge how far away an insect is

22
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Angiosperm Hypothesis

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RW Sussman

adaptive radiation in flowers triggers solution change in primates

23
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taphonomy

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how things are fossilized

24
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biostratigraphy

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relative dating

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absolute dating
ESR and carbon 14 to find out how old something is
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stem group
all of the taxa in a clade before a major speciation
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crown group
all of the taxa in a clade after a major speciation event
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sister group
new clades that result from the splitting of a single common lineage
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Late cretaceous
100-66 mya | dinosaurs followed by extinction
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Paleocene
65-55.8 mya | protoprimates arising
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Eocene
55.8-33 mya | Protoprimates turn to euprimates
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Oligocene
33-23 mya | true monkeys appear: look like tarsiers and lemurs
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Miocene
23-5.3 mya | APES
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pliocene
5.3-1.8 mya
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pleistocene
1.8-0.01 mya
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Holocene
0.01- PRESENT
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KT boundary
when the dinosaurs went extinct and enables primates to rise
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Afropithecus
18-16 mya Africa to saudi arabia lacks a tail FIRST dispersal out of Africa into Europe 17-16.5 mya
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Griphopithecus
16.5-14 mya Germany to Turkey EVOLVED AND EXPANDS throughout Europe and into western Asia 16.5-14 mya
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Dryopithecus
earliest european ape middle miocene france and spain EVOLVES AND DISPERSES in europe 13.5-12 mya
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Sivapithecus
late miocene similar to orang EVOLVES AND DISPERSES in southern asia 13.5-12 mya