Exam 5: The Primates

Learning, adaptive flexibility, and tool use are traits found only in the platyrrhines.

U.S.Congress authorized the Great Apes Conservation Fund, which can help preserve the diversity of apes in the wild.

As a result of conservation efforts, few primate species are endangered today.

_________ is used as a basis for assigning organisms to the same taxon.

__________ is not an adaptive trend in anthropoids.

The statement, ____________, is not true.

Apes have longer arms than legs, which is adaptive for

The first hominoids fossils are from the

Of the following nonhuman primates, __________ are most comparable to humans.

Opposable thumbs evolved as early primates adapted to terrestrial life.

The great apes include

According to the arboreal theory, primates became primates by adapting to life on the savannah.

Proconsul had apelike teeth and an apelike body.

The primate group ___________ thrived in the Eocene.

__________ indicate(s) a shift from smell to sight as the primates' most important means of obtaining information.

___________ is an example of an analogy.

Overlapping fields of vision improve depth perception.

A high level of parental investment characterize primates because most primates give birth to a single offspring.

Identify the general trends in hominoid evolution during the Miocene.List the important hominoid traits that appeared during this epoch.

The classification of organisms based on their relationships and resemblances is known as