Chapter 10 - Overview Of The Fossil Primates Flashcards
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Pentadactyly
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Five fingers and toes
2
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Orthograde
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Upright body position
3
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Strepsirhine
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Lemurs and lorises
4
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Haplorhine
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Tarsiers, monkeys, apes, and humans
5
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Euarchonta
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Tree shrews, flyin lemurs, and primates
6
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Superorder
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Above order, below class and subclass
7
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Sister groups
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Two new clades
8
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Last common ancestor (lca)
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Final evolutionary link between two related groups
9
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Stem group
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All taxa in a clade before a major speciation event
10
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Semiorder
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Above suborder and below order
11
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Euprimates
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True primates
12
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Postcranial
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Below the skull
13
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Adapoidea
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Lemur-like
14
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Omomyoidea
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Tarsier and galago - like
15
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Homology
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Similar traits based on descent
