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Test 2 Flashcards

1
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Platyrrhini

A

NWM

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2
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Catrrhini

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OWM

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3
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Tarsiiformes

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infraorder
SE asia
Nocturnal
Vertical clinging and leaping

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4
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Anthropoidea

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infraoder to Haplorhini

monkeys, apes, humans

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5
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catarrhini

A

OW monkeys and apes

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6
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hylobatidae

A

lesser apes

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7
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bilophodont pattern

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4 cusps

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8
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diastema

A

space or gap between canine and adjacent tooth

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9
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honing

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when the canine is sharpened in diastema

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10
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calvarium

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skull minus lower jaw

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11
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mandible

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lower jaw
lemurs and lorises- 2 jaws
tarsiers, apes and monkeys- 1

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12
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postcranium

A

everything but skeleton

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13
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axial skeleton

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everything attached to the backbone

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14
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appendicular skeleton

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everything not touching the backbone

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15
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who uses quadropedalism

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orangs, gorillas, chimp

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16
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pan troglodytes

A

chimps

east africa

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17
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pan paniscus

A

Bonobo

Zaire

18
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polyandry

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females with more than 1 male

19
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polygyny

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male has more than 1 female

20
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Arboreal Hypothesis

A

G Elliot Smith

primate adaptions evolved from life in trees

21
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Visual Predation Hypothesis

A

Matt Cartmill

binocular vision so they could accurately judge how far away an insect is

22
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Angiosperm Hypothesis

A

RW Sussman

adaptive radiation in flowers triggers solution change in primates

23
Q

taphonomy

A

how things are fossilized

24
Q

biostratigraphy

A

relative dating

25
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absolute dating

A

ESR and carbon 14 to find out how old something is

26
Q

stem group

A

all of the taxa in a clade before a major speciation

27
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crown group

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all of the taxa in a clade after a major speciation event

28
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sister group

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new clades that result from the splitting of a single common lineage

29
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Late cretaceous

A

100-66 mya

dinosaurs followed by extinction

30
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Paleocene

A

65-55.8 mya

protoprimates arising

31
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Eocene

A

55.8-33 mya

Protoprimates turn to euprimates

32
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Oligocene

A

33-23 mya

true monkeys appear: look like tarsiers and lemurs

33
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Miocene

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23-5.3 mya

APES

34
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pliocene

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5.3-1.8 mya

35
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pleistocene

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1.8-0.01 mya

36
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Holocene

A

0.01- PRESENT

37
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KT boundary

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when the dinosaurs went extinct and enables primates to rise

38
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Afropithecus

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18-16 mya
Africa to saudi arabia
lacks a tail
FIRST dispersal out of Africa into Europe 17-16.5 mya

39
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Griphopithecus

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16.5-14 mya
Germany to Turkey
EVOLVED AND EXPANDS throughout Europe and into western Asia 16.5-14 mya

40
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Dryopithecus

A

earliest european ape
middle miocene
france and spain
EVOLVES AND DISPERSES in europe 13.5-12 mya

41
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Sivapithecus

A

late miocene
similar to orang
EVOLVES AND DISPERSES in southern asia 13.5-12 mya

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