Human Origins - Primate Evolution
This is over primate evolution.
- 1.These are all monkeys, apes, and humans.
- A.
Anthropoid
- B.
Catarrhine
- C.
Hominoid
- D.
Platyrrhine
- 2.These are Old World monkeys, apes, and humans.
- A.
Anthropoid
- B.
Catarrhine
- C.
Hominoid
- D.
Platyrrhine
- 3.These have the dental formula of 2, 1, 2, 3.
- A.
Anthropoid
- B.
Catarrhine
- C.
Hominoid
- D.
Platyrrhine
- 4.These are New World monkeys.
- A.
Anthropoid
- B.
Catarrhine
- C.
Hominoid
- D.
Platyrrhine
- 5.These have the dental formula of 2, 1, 3, 3.
- A.
Anthropoid
- B.
Catarrhine
- C.
Hominoid
- D.
Platyrrhine
- 6.These are apes and humans.
- A.
Anthropoid
- B.
Catarrhine
- C.
Hominoid
- D.
Platyrrhine
- 7.The first archaic primates (or plesiadapiforms) appear during this time.
- A.
Eocene
- B.
Miocene
- C.
Oligocene
- D.
Paleocene
- 8.This time period was about 65-55.8 million years ago.
- A.
Eocene
- B.
Miocene
- C.
Oligocene
- D.
Paleocene
- 9.This time period was about 55.8-33 million years ago.
- A.
Eocene
- B.
Miocene
- C.
Oligocene
- D.
Paleocene
- 10.Euprimates replace plesiadapiforms during this time.
- A.
Eocene
- B.
Miocene
- C.
Oligocene
- D.
Paleocene
- 11.Lorisoids (lorises and galagos) evolved during this time.
- A.
Eocene
- B.
Miocene
- C.
Oligocene
- D.
Paleocene
- 12.Tarsiers appear in fossil record during this time.
- A.
Eocene
- B.
Miocene
- C.
Oligocene
- D.
Paleocene
- 13.The Algeripithecus, the earliest known anthropoid, appears during this time.
- A.
Eocene
- B.
Miocene
- C.
Oligocene
- D.
Paleocene
- 14.The Catopithecus, the earliest known catarrhine, appears during this time.
- A.
Eocene
- B.
Miocene
- C.
Oligocene
- D.
Paleocene
- 15.This time period was about 33-23 million years ago.
- A.
Eocene
- B.
Miocene
- C.
Oligocene
- D.
Paleocene
- 16.Most of these anthropoid fossils come from the Fayum in Egypt.
- A.
Eocene
- B.
Miocene
- C.
Oligocene
- D.
Paleocene
- 17.Old and New World anthropoids diverged during this time.
- A.
Eocene
- B.
Miocene
- C.
Oligocene
- D.
Paleocene
- 18.New World monkeys reach South America (possibly even earlier) during this time.
- A.
Eocene
- B.
Miocene
- C.
Oligocene
- D.
Paleocene
- 19.This time period was about 23-5.3 million years ago.
- A.
Eocene
- B.
Miocene
- C.
Oligocene
- D.
Paleocene
- 20.Dental apes and true apes appear in the fossil record during this time.
- A.
Eocene
- B.
Miocene
- C.
Oligocene
- D.
Paleocene
- 21.Apes dispersed out of Africa to colonize Europe and Asia during this time.
- A.
Eocene
- B.
Miocene
- C.
Oligocene
- D.
Paleocene
- 22.Gigantopithecus, the largest ape, lived in Asia during this time.
- A.
Eocene
- B.
Miocene
- C.
Oligocene
- D.
Paleocene
- 23.The ancestors of extant apes evolved during this time.
- A.
Eocene
- B.
Miocene
- C.
Oligocene
- D.
Paleocene
- 24._________________ most likely evolved in North America during the Paleocene period.
- 25.The 3 families of the plesiadapiforms are (in alphabetical order):
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