BIO 3102 Study Guide - Ape, Quaternary Extinction Event, Terrestrial Locomotion
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Amniote animals: fluid in which the embryo is bathed in, organisms that have this include, reptile, mammals, birds. Anthropoids: resembling a human being in form, a higher primate, esp an ape or apeman. Australopithecus: a fossil bipedal primate with both apelike and human characterestics, found in pliocene and lower pleistocene deposits in africa. Cro-magnons: among first fossils to be recognized belonging to or own species : homo sapiens, robustly built and powerful, body = heavy with strong muscles, large brain than human today. Endothermy: ability to control and maintain homeostasis, thought internal metabolic processes, found in mammals and birds, warm blooded. Large ape of a family closely related to humans, including the gorilla, orangutan and chimpanzees, but excluding gibbons, and anthropoid ape. Hominids: group consisting of all modern and extinct great apes (that is, modern humans, chimpanzees, gorillas and orang-utans plus all their immediate ancestors) Hominins: group consisting of moern humans, extinct human species and all our immediate ancestors.
