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1 Chordate Characteristics

2 Subphylum Urochordata: a Tunicate

3 Subphylum Cephalochordata: Lancelet Anatomy

4 Subphylum Cephalochordata: the lancelet Branchiostoma

5 Australian Monotremes and Marsupials
Spiny Anteater (Monotreme) Sugar glider (marsupial) Marsupial Mouse

6 Hypothetical Cladogram of Mammals

7 Evolutionary convergence of marsupial and eutherian (placental) mammals

8 Major Orders of Mammals (Monotremata-Sirenia)

9 Major Orders of Mammals (Edentata-Primates)

10 Major Orders of Mammals (Carnivora-Cetaceans)

11 A Phylogenetic Tree of Primates

12 Primate Diversity

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14 Prosimians:Lemurs

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18 Sitting pads, estrus swelling, generally larger
A Capuchin, a New World Monkey (left), and a Vervet, an Old World Monkey (rt) Arboreal, no sitting pads or estrus swelling, prehensile tail Sitting pads, estrus swelling, generally larger Others: baboon, macaque,Colobus, Rhesus Others: squirrel monkey, spider monkey, howler monkey

19 Crested Macaque Showing Estrus Swelling

20 Orangutan Gibbon Chimpanzee Gorilla

21 Bonobo

22 Jane Goodall Today

23 List: a. two prosimians b. two anthropoids List two characteristics of all primates.

24 Name three types of molecules which
can be used to confirm our relationship with the African Apes. Dian Fossey is best known for her work with this ape - ___________, while Jane Goodall is best known for her work with the _______________.

25 Human Place the following organisms on the
Chimp Human Place the following organisms on the phylogenetic tree in terms of their relationship to the human: spider monkey, bush baby, orangutan, baboon, siamang.


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