BISC 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Homo Sapiens, Hominidae, Phylogenetic Tree
19 Oct 2015
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Not the whole species, but we can try to clone the extinct ones providing we have intact dna. we do not have enough material. Ancestral primate in the phylogenetic tree. the primate will be the mammalian order of animals. includes monkeys and apes. Monkeys: new world monkeys and old world monkeys. has to do with geography. Apes: hominoids. among all the apes we recognize the lesser apes: gibbons and great apes: orangutans, chimpanzees and gorillas. humans belong to apes. Hominids= hominids. same thing. refers to organisms most closely related to humans than any other primate. Primates will have the features of mammals: endothermic, bearing our young, feeding our young with milk produced from mammary glands and body covered with hair. Hard to use only this description to define primates. Other features: the hands and feet adaptations. Nails: before nails there were claws. exception: tamarins don"t have nails. Skin ridges on fingertips: human fingerprinting to identify ourselves.
