Chordate Characteristics

Subphylum Urochordata: a Tunicate

Subphylum Cephalochordata: Lancelet Anatomy

Subphylum Cephalochordata: the lancelet Branchiostoma

Australian Monotremes and Marsupials Spiny Anteater (Monotreme) Sugar glider (marsupial) Marsupial Mouse

Hypothetical Cladogram of Mammals

Evolutionary convergence of marsupial and eutherian (placental) mammals

Major Orders of Mammals (Monotremata-Sirenia)

Major Orders of Mammals (Edentata-Primates)

Major Orders of Mammals (Carnivora-Cetaceans)

A Phylogenetic Tree of Primates

Primate Diversity

Prosimians:Lemurs

Sitting pads, estrus swelling, generally larger A Capuchin, a New World Monkey (left), and a Vervet, an Old World Monkey (rt) Arboreal, no sitting pads or estrus swelling, prehensile tail Sitting pads, estrus swelling, generally larger Others: baboon, macaque,Colobus, Rhesus Others: squirrel monkey, spider monkey, howler monkey

Crested Macaque Showing Estrus Swelling

Orangutan Gibbon Chimpanzee Gorilla

Bonobo

Jane Goodall Today

List: a. two prosimians b. two anthropoids List two characteristics of all primates.

Name three types of molecules which can be used to confirm our relationship with the African Apes. Dian Fossey is best known for her work with this ape - ___________, while Jane Goodall is best known for her work with the _______________.

Human Place the following organisms on the Chimp Human Place the following organisms on the phylogenetic tree in terms of their relationship to the human: spider monkey, bush baby, orangutan, baboon, siamang.