BIOC50H3 Lecture 13: Lecture Thirteen
22 Dec 2018
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Apes, including (together hominidae) evolve in old world monkey lineage: sister group to the old-world monkey lineage is the new world monkeys. Looking within the great apes" phylogeny: humans are sister group to genus pan which include chimpanzee pan. We"re focusing on the hominan fossil record: any of the species including modern humans that form the sister group of the chimpanzees (pan) Few chimpanzee fossils have been found, the oldest of which goes back less than 1 million years ago. But there is a rich fossil record of hominans going back to the late miocene 6 to 7 mya. Looking at the actual chronology of various fossil species leading to genus homo. Three genera are well known: australopithecus is the oldest and probably gave rise to the genus homo and. Paranthropus: exact relationships between in each group is uncertain, homo habilis and h. rudolfensis are sometimes placed in the australopithecus and probably represent transitional forms between the two genera.
