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ch.16vocab.
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| primates | group of mammals that includes, lemurs, monkeys, apes, and humans. |
| opposable thumb | a thumb that can cross the palm to meet the other fingertips. |
| anthropoids | humanlike primates. |
| prehensile tail | long and musclular tail that charcterizes many of these primates. |
| bipedal | able to walk on two legs. |
| homonoids | primates that can walk upright on two legs. |
| hominids | bipedal primates that modern humans and there ancestors. |
| neandertals | lived from about 35,000 to 100,000 years ago in europe, asia, and the middle east. |
| cro-magnons | identical to modern humans in height, skull structure, tooth structure, and brain size. |
| australopithecine | an early hominid that lived in africa and possessed both apelike and humanlike characteristics. |