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ch. 16 vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| primate | a group of mammals that include lemurs, monkeys, apes, and humans |
| opposable thumb | a thumb that can cross the palm to meet the other fingertips |
| anthropoids | the humanlike primates |
| prehensile tail | long muscular tail used as fifth limb for grasping and wrapping around objects |
| hominoid | primates that can walk upright in two legs and include gorillas, chimpanzees, bonobos, and humans |
| bipedal | able to walk on two legs |
| hominid | bipedal primates that include modern humans and their direct ancestors |
| australopithecine | an early hominid that lived in Africa and possessed both apelike and humanlike characteristics |
| neandertal | archaic homo sapiens that lived from 35000 to 100000 years ago in europe Asia and the middle east |
| Cro-Magnon | identical to modern humans in height, skull, brain size, tooth structure |