Anth Chap 9 Questions

The arboreal hypothesis of primate origins explains that:

As a corollary to the idea that primates emerged as an adaptation to an arboreal environment, Matt Cartmill proposed that

Robert Sussman's angiosperm radiation hypothesis is based on finding that

Euprimates,the first true primates, consisted of the following two groups

Higher primates most likely evolved from

While flipping through the channels, you stop on a television program about primate evolution. The host says that there is a 6-million-year gap in the fossil evidence between the latest Oligocene catarrhines and the earliest Miocene proconsulids, which could mean that primates disappeared from Earth and evolved anew some time later. Your roommate comes running when you start yelling at the television,

Which of the following is unique to hominins

The first primate fossil to be described by a scientist was recorded by

A valid criticism of the idea that anthropoids evolved independently in Africa and South America is that

The common ancestor of all later catarrhines, Old World Monkeys, and hominins was likely

From 12 to 8 mya, Dryopithecids were found in __________ while Sivapithecids were found in__________

A valid criticism of the arboreal hypothesis of primate origins is that

Your classmate, whose part-time job entails reorganizing the paleoanthropology lab on campus, asks you to take a look at a skeleton that she thinks is from a primate. After noting the absence of a postorbital bar, nails, and an opposable thumb, you tell her that

While walking across campus, you overhear a guy telling his girlfriend that the origin of every human ancestor was in Africa. You stop him and explain that he is not completely correct because

Your biology instructor says in class that the fossil remains of primates from the Eocene demonstrate that they were nothing like the primates of today. After class, you argue with him, noting that

This anthropologist is sweeping away layers of sand to

The Fayum desert has yielded fossils of these three primates:

If you are examining the fossil remains of the genus Dryopithecus, they are most likely from where?

The most distinctive feature of ape dentition, which clearly distinguishes apes from Old World monkeys, is:

The angiosperm radiation hypothesis proposes that:

Basal anthropoids are:

Gigantopithecus:

Two genera of propliopithecids include:

Paleocene organisms that may have been the first primates were:

Monkeys underwent massive__________in the Pliocene and Pleistocene.

Comparisons of tooth wear in living apes and extinct Miocene apes suggest that some extinct species of apes ate:

The shift from the Miocene, which had greater diversity of ape species and fewer monkey species, to a living assemblage with greater diversity of monkey species and fewer ape species may be the result of:

Sivapithecus is widely recognized as an ancestral member of which ape lineage?

Chororapithecus is considered the

Plesiadapiforms are also called:

Which anatomical feature would you expect to find in the fossil remains of a nocturnal species?

The northern African fossil primate called Biretia may be an early anthropoid, based on the morphology of its:

Based on genetic analysis of living primates calibrated by the fossil record, it is estimated that apes and Old World monkeys diverged into separate lineages around