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Chap 16 Glencoe Bio

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Anthropoid human-like primates including hominoids, Old and New World monkeys
Opposable thumb Thumb that can cross the palm to meet the other finger tips
Prehensile tail Long muscular tail used as a fifth limb
Primate group of mammals that includes lemurs, monkeys, apes and humans. All have common traits such as diverse behaviors, rounded head, large brain to body size ration,etc.
Australopithecine early hominid that lived in Africa and had both ape-like and human characteristics.
Bipedal walk on 2 legs
Cro-Magnon identical to modern humans in height, tooth structure, brain size, etc. Probably tool makers and artists.
hominid bipedal primates that include modern humans
hominoid The two ancestral lines (chimps and humans) that evolved from one common link.
Neandertal lived 30,000 to 100,000 years ago. Thick bones, large faces and prominent noses. Brains at least as large as modern man. Lived in caves, may have had religious views and communicated through spoken language.
strepsirrhines small primates that include lemurs and aye-ayes. Have wet noses, large eyes, are nocturnal and depend on smell rather than eye sight. Live in Africa and S.E Asia
haplorhines Tarsars and anthropoids (human-like primates. Dry noses. Depend on eye site rather than smell.
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