BIO 1130 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Anatomically Modern Human, Mammary Gland, Sweat Gland

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Biology
• Course: BIO 1130
• Professor: Jon Houseman

Document Summary

Amniote animals: animals that have adopted the amniote egg these animals include the birds, mammals, and the reptiles. Bipedal: walking on two legs this was developed by the homonins. Cro-magnons informal name for the first early modern humans. Endothermy: being warm-blooded the ability to regulate body temperature. Glandular skin sweating: ability to communicate silently through the use of hormones and the maintenance of hair and. Great apes the larger apes such as the gorillas, chimpanzees, bonobos, and humans. Hominids: humans and the relatives of humans more closely related than the chimpanzees, besides the humans they are all extinct. Hominins further divides the group of the homininae to just include the humans and their ancestors. Neogene: period spanning 20 million years until about 2. 5 mya further development of the birds and the mammals and the appearance of hominids in africa. Out-of-africa hypothesis the hypothesis for the evolution of man in that there was one line that spread throughout the world.