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Chapter 16&17 Vocab

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Primates a 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 the humanlike primates
Prehensile tail almost like a fifth limb that graps and wraps around branches
homonoid primates that can walk up right on two legs.
bipedal able to walk on two legs
hominids bipedal primates that include modern humans and their direct ancestors
austalopithecine early hominid that lived in Africa and possessed both apelike and humanlike characteristics.
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, and brain size
classification the grouping of objects or info based on similarities
taxonomy the branch of biology that groups and names organisms based on studies of their different characteristics
binomial nomenclature modern classification systems use a two-word naming system
genus consists of a group of similar species
specific epithet sometimes describes a characteristic of an organism
family the next larger taxon in the biological classification system
order a taxon of similar families
class a taxon of similar orders
division plant taxonomists use the taxon division instead of phylum
kingdom a taxon of similar phyla or divisions
phylogeny the ecolutionary history of a species
clasdistics one biological system of classifications that is based on phylogeny
cladogram a diagram used to branch derived traits
protist a eukaryote that lacks complex organ systems and lives in moist environments
fungus either a unicellular or multicellular eukaryote that abosrbs nutrients from organic materials in the environment
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