1. Class Slides Set 12A Introduction to Primates Tim Roufs’ section
Prehistoric Cultures
Class Slides Set 12A
Introduction to Primates
Tim Roufs’ section

4. Classification chart (after Linnaeus)
Understanding Physical Anthropology and Archaeology, 9th ed., p. 96

5. Primate taxonomic classification
Understanding Physical Anthropology and Archaeology, 9th ed., p. 123

6. pre-monkeys monkeys apes humans
prosimians
monkeys
monkeys
apes
apes
humans
humans

8. Primates are tropical and temperate climate creatures
Distribution of Nonhuman Primates
Humankind Emerging, 7th ed., p. 93

10. “Times to Remember” WebPage

11. The Emergence of Humankind, 4th ed., p. 64
A Primate Family Tree
The Emergence of Humankind, 4th ed., p. 64

12. The Emergence of Humankind, 4th ed., p. 64
A Primate Family Tree
The Emergence of Humankind, 4th ed., p. 64

14. Mesozoic (ca. 125 m.y.a.) Cenozoic (ca. 65 m.y.a.)
Understanding Physical Anthropology and Archaeology, 9th ed., p. 106

15. Pangea Pangea Split | “Island Effect” New Adaptations
New Orders of Creation

16. physical modifications
Primates
tree life |
physical modifications

17. Primates
earliest primates =
prosimians
(pre-monkeys)

18. Primates improved grasping hand improved opposability
more elaborate brains
smelling becomes secondary
color vision
larger eyes
eyes moved forward |

19. Understanding Physical Anthropology and Archaeology, 9th ed., p. 116
Gibbon Red Wolf
Understanding Physical Anthropology and Archaeology, 9th ed., p. 116

20. All of this required increased coordination of senses
Primates
All of this required increased coordination of senses

21. Primates monkeys use food more efficiently than apes |
need for apes to encounter wider and more varied environments
greater variety of environments

22. Primates
microenvironments

23. microenvironments

24. The African Savannah Illustration by Jay H. Matternes
microenvironments
The African Savannah Illustration by Jay H. Matternes

25. Primates multiplicity of alternatives need for deliberation|
need for deliberation
requires more time
causes delay

26. Primates
therefore life becomes less automatic and one depends to a greater extent on learning . . .

27. Primates
CULTURE
(learned behavior)

28. Next: Prosimians
Prosimians
(pre-monkeys)