Human Evolution

Question 1

The most primitive of the primates

Answer 1

prosimians

Question 2

What do anthropoids include?

Answer 2

monkey, apes & humans

Question 3

Old world monkey were…

Answer 3

larger than New World monkeys. They are diurnal, and are physically different as well
Narrow and downward pointing nostrils
Longer hind legs than forearms

Question 4

New world monkey were…

Answer 4

Monkeys range vastly in size - some are quite tiny, like the 6 inch pygmy marmoset, and some are larger - the howler monkey can be up to 3 feet in length.

Question 5

New World Monkeys are called…

Answer 5

platyrrhines

Question 6

Hominoids

Answer 6

Includes the great apes + lesser apes

Question 7

oldest known biped

Answer 7

Ardipithecus ramidus

Question 8

Australopithecus afarensis

Answer 8

It is thought that A. afarensis was more closely related to the genus Homo, whether as a direct ancestor or a close relative of an unknown ancestor, than any other known primate from the same time.

Question 9

Oldest fossils of Homo

Answer 9

Homo habilis. First human ancestor to use stone tools.