ANT 2000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Clavicle, Cenozoic, Altiatlasius
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Three different sets of features that distinguishes primates, living and extinct: ancestral characteristics (often called "primitive characteristics"), past evolutionary trends, and, unique features. What does distinguish primates, living and extinct, are three different sets of features: ancestral characteristics (often called "primitive characteristics"), __________, and, unique features. past evolutionary trends. What does distinguish primates, living and extinct, are three different sets of features: ancestral characteristics (often called "primitive characteristics"), past evolutionary trends, and, _______. unique features. In addition, primates are unusual because they are "distinguished mainly by a tendency to retain specific parts that other animals have lost during their evolution ". This is why primates are often described as ______________. generalized organisms. Ancestral characteristics that primates inherited from earlier, non -primate, mammalian ancestors appear in their _______ _________ ____________. Ancestral characteristics that primates inherited from earlier, non -primate, mammalian ancestors appear in their generalized postcranial skeletons.
