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Prosimians (lemurs, lorises, and tarsiers) use their sense of smell to find food, have a pronounced...

Prosimians (lemurs, lorises, and tarsiers) use their sense of smell to find food, have a pronounced snout, are quadrupedal, and have a long tail used for balance. Apes have a flattened face, no tail, use their sight for finding food, and are quadrupedal. Humans are bipedal, use sight to find food, have a flattened face, and have no functional tail. Monkeys have a flattened face, use their eyesight to find food, are quadrupedal, and have a functional tail. If the prosimians condition is pleisiomorphic, draw a cladogram showing the phylogeny of primates. Include the synapomorphies as slashes on your cladogram in the appropriate places and which each one is.

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CLADOGRAM:A CLADOGRAM is the diagram used to represent a hypothetical relationship between group of animals,called a pylogeny.A CLADOGRAM is used by a scientist studying pylogenic systematics to visualize the group of organisms being compared ,how they are related ,and their most common ancestors .

Sydney Mullin answered 2 years ago
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