BIO 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Homo Habilis, Homo Erectus, Japanese Macaque
5 Dec 2016
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Tribe: hominini (humans and our close extinct relatives) (modern humans and our close extinct relatives) Strepsirrhini (wet-nosed) primates are the most ancient primates: some lemurs don"t act like other strepsirrhini. The remaining primates are haplorrhini (dry-nosed) primates: are known for their complex social systems. The platyrrhines (new world monkeys) live in south and central america. Apes (hominoids: gibbons, hominids (great apes and humans) The apes and hominins make up the hominoids. The asian apes branched from other hominoids in two separate events. African apes and humans evolved most recently. How are apes and hominins different? (mainly based off of locomotion) There are skeletal changes related to walking upright: vertical column= more curved, spine comes from the base of our skull, pelvis is broader. All members of the genus homo are called humans: homo habilis, homo erectus (longest lived human species)
