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| Characteristics of Primates |
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| flat faces, opposable thumb, vision is the dominant sense, large brain in relation to body size |
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| new and old world monkeys, gibbons, orangutans, apes, humans |
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| Lemurs, tarsiers, may have been the first primates |
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| primates that walk upright. first evolved in Africa |
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| earliest fossil evidence of human-like animal. Skull like an ape, but spinal chord was at the base of the brain like a human. Pelvis indicates it walkedupright. It became extinct about 1 million years ago. |
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| "handy human" first used stone tools and lived aobut 2 million years ago. |
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| possibly another species that existed during the time of Homo Habilis demonstrating that there might have been several different Homo species living at one time. |
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| fossils of these are foud in caves and used stone axes and it is thought they were hunters. This is thought to be a separate species from humans today. Lived about 1.6 million years ago. |
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| thought to originate between 100 and 400 thousand years ago. They were hunter-gatherers until 10 - 15 thousand years ago when they started living together and civilizations developed |
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| like "cavemen" Chromosomal testing shows that this species was kin to humans. However, they may have lived at the same time as humans and may have had some interbreeding and their genes may be in the gene pool. |
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