Exam 5 Flashcards
species were created, but not perfectly adapted
Buffon
Stated “Scala Naturae”
Aristotle
fixity of species
Cuvier
50-80 total extinctions
Agassiz
species change due to use and disuse of parts
Lamarck
geological gradualism
Lyell
populations increase until they run out of resources
Malthus
hybrids not as fit
reinforcement
hybrids more fit
fusion
gradual speciation
anagenesis
sudden speciation
cladogenesis
Prosimians do not include what?
the tarsiers
anthropoids
primates other than the prosimians and tarsiers. Include the old world and new world monkeys
a lemur is a_____
prosimian
chimpanzees, gibbons, orangutans, gorillas, and ancestors of man. Larger than monkeys and lack tails
Hominoids (apes)
Proto-primate
Purgatorius
Oldest known true primate
Teilhardina
earliest known anthropoid
Eosimias
found in Myanmar. Early anthropoid
Ganlea
Early anthropoid. Lived in trees, opposable thumbs, brain the size of a cat’s
Aegyptopithecus