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Chapter 26.3 Primate Evolution

SC.912.L.15.10 Identify basic trends in hominid evolution from early ancestors six million years ago to modern humans, including brain size, jaw size, language, and manufacture of tools. Chapter 26.3 Primate Evolution. Circle Map. What do I know about primates?.

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Chapter 26.3 Primate Evolution

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  1. SC.912.L.15.10 Identify basic trends in hominid evolution from early ancestors six million years ago to modern humans, including brain size, jaw size, language, and manufacture of tools. Chapter 26.3 Primate Evolution

  2. Circle Map What do I know about primates?

  3. Mammal with relatively long fingers and toes. Nails instead of claws. Arms that can rotate around shoulder joints. A strong clavicle(collar bone), binocular vision (both eyes used together). Well developed cerebrum (largest portion of the brain-the “thinking” part). What is a primate?

  4. How are the skeletal features of your hands different from external features of the paws of a dog or the hooves of a horse? Skeletal features of primates

  5. Primates are bipedal, or capable of walking on 2 limbs. What is an advantage of being bipedal? Having binocular vision? (paper) Skeletal features of primates

  6. As we learn today… Write some characteristics about the 3 groups of primates. Fill in the missing information. Tree Map- inside compositions PRIMATES Prosimians Hominoids

  7. 1) Prosimians: • Oldest living primate group • Most are small and active at night-nocturnal • i.e. lemurs, lorises, and tarsiers • Tarsiers are known as “living fossils” because their phenotypes have changed since their appearance in the fossil record 40 mya. Evolution of primates

  8. 2) Anthropoids: • Humanlike primates • i.e. New World monkeys and Old World monkeys • New World: squirrel and spider monkeys • Old World: spend time in trees but no prehensile tail. • Prehensile tail: “fifth hand” Evolution of primates

  9. 3) Hominoids: • Lesser apes • i.e. gibbons, orangutans, chimps, gorillas, humans • Walk upright, long lower limbs, opposable thumbs Evolution of primates

  10. The hominoids in the line led to humans called hominines. i.e. modern humans Evolved to walk upright, walk on two legs (bipedal), grasping thumbs, and large brains. Hominine evolution

  11. Homo neanderthalensis: • arose 200,000 ya. • Lived in complex social groups, controlled use of fires, and excellent hunters. • Lived in Europe until 28,000 to 24,000 ya. Modern Humans

  12. Homo sapiens: • Arrived in Middle East from Africa 100,000 ya. • 50,000 ya began using stone blades for tools. • Arrived in M.E., they found H. neanderthalensis already there. Coexisted for several thousand years. (no one knows what happened to them) • H. sapiens: only surviving member of the diverse hominine clade. Modern Humans

  13. What changes can you see? Why do you think this happened? Skull evolution

  14. Complete a double bubble to compare human and gorilla skeleton. Connect the terms you learned today into your map. Double bubble-as closing H. neanderthalensis H. sapiens

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