ANTH 1001 : Test 3
Document Summary
Primate evolution (don"t need to know exact dates, should know chronologically) Eocene (55-27 mya: found the first true primates during this time period, have identified over 200 primate species, euprimates, earliest fossil examples of primates, two examples of euprimates, adapids. Similar to stepsirhines: omomyids, similar to tarsiers, there is variation between and within these groups. Miocene (22. 5-5 mya: golden age of hominoids , hominoids: when we start to see apes, examples, african form, afropithecus, european form, dryopithecus, asian forms, sivapithecus, gigantopithecus (largest primate to ever walk the planet / between 8-9 feet tall) Pleiocene (5-1. 8mya: modern humans emerge, hominids and hominins. Holocene (10 kya present: modern times. Goals: identify, the specimens genus and species, relationship, to each other and to modern humans, behavior. The difference between humans and apes: the big 3 , culture, material (tools, brain size, bipedalism, humans are the only ones that use bipedalism primarily, the big 3 did not occur simultaneously.
