Question

14. Examples of primates, hominids, hominoids, prosimians, anthropoids, monkeys, and apes

15. Understand the differences between ancestral (primitive) and modified (derived) traits

16. Know examples and differences between the two types of dating methods used

17. Identify deliberate vs. autonomic communication of nonhuman primates

18. What are affiliative nonhuman primate behaviors?

19. What are the different Primate locomotion modes? ( be able to give corresponding examples & corresponding bone proportions)

20. What are the steps of the scientific method?

21. What trends define the Order of Primates?

22. Does the environment have an influence on growth and development?

23. Define exons vs. introns, homologous chromosomes, sister chromatids, recombination

24. When did the diversification of mammals occur?

25. Why was H. habilis identified as a different genus than the Australopithecines?

26. What are the differences between the “robust” and “gracile” australopithecines (cranial features, teeth, diet)

27. Traditionally, what is the name of the 1st species to move out of Africa?

28. Be able to describe the Nariokotome fossil find

29. Be familiar with the general geographic areas H. erectus fossils were discovered

30. What do the Dmanisi fossils indicate

31. The term Homo ergaster refers to fossils found where?

32. What are the contributions of Alfred Russel Wallace, Gregor Mendel, Thomas Malthus,

John Ray, Charles Darwin, and Carolus Linnaeus

33. Be familiar with the culture of Neandertals (hunting, symbolic behavior)

34. Describe the morphological features of Neandertals fossils-- (cranial & postcranial features)

35. Where are Neandertal fossils found?

36. Be able to differentiate between the three models used to explain the presence of modern Homo sapiens

Answer 1

Primates is a biological order with species like lemurs,monkeys etc. They are classified into three main groups.