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Hominoids: Early Apes and Humans
Prehistoric Cultures Class Slides Set 13A Hominoids: Early Apes and Humans OUTTAKES Tim Roufs’ section
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Sivapithecus
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General Features / Trends of Apes / Humans
All living apes show forelimb-dominated locomotion (They climb, swing, or hang about by their arms -- “brachiation”)
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Miocene Hominoids
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= all living and extinct monkeys, apes and humans
back to the “Anthropoids” = all living and extinct monkeys, apes and humans
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Anthropoids
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all living and extinct apes and humans
Back to the “Hominoids” all living and extinct apes and humans
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General Features and Major Evolutionary Trends of Apes and Humans
(Hominoidea) Understanding Physical Anthropology and Archaeology, 8th ed., p. 131
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Hominoids
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Major Evolutionary Trends
General Features and Major Evolutionary Trends of Apes and Humans
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General Features / Trends of Apes / Humans
(Began m.y.a.) Holocene 0.01 Pleistocene 1.8 Pliocene 5 Miocene 23 Oligocene 34 Eocene 55 Paleocene 65
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General Features / Trends of Apes / Humans
(Began m.y.a.) Holocene 0.01 Pleistocene 1.8 Pliocene 5 Miocene 23 Oligocene 34 Eocene 55 Paleocene 65
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Understanding Physical Anthropology and Archaeology, 8th ed., p. 183
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Understanding Physical Anthropology and Archaeology, 8th ed., p. 191
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Oligocene Catarrhines
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Understanding Physical Anthropology and Archaeology, 8th ed., p. 183
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“Times to Remember” WebPage
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Understanding Physical Anthropology and Archaeology, 8th ed., p. 191
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General Features / Trends of Apes / Humans
flourished in the later part of the Miocene ca. 15 – 5 mya
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General Features / Trends of Apes / Humans
Well represented in the fossil record by such forms as: Sivapithecus . . . Rampithecus Kenyapithecus Ouranopithecus Dryopithecus Proconsul Oreopithecus Gigantopithecus
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General Features / Trends of Apes / Humans
Rudapithecus Pasalar Nyanzapithecus Afropithecus Turkanopithecus Rangwapithecus and others
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General Features / Trends of Apes / Humans
(Began m.y.a.) Holocene 0.01 Pleistocene 1.8 Pliocene 5 Miocene 23 Oligocene 34 Eocene 55 Paleocene 65
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Understanding Physical Anthropology and Archaeology, 8th ed., p. 191
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Prehistoric Hominoidea
Miocene hominoids: Proconsul (Miocene “dental ape”) Oreopithecus Pliopithecus Dryopithecus Sivapithecus Gigantopithecus
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