ANT335Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Cerebellum
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Captured in africa and brought to europe and later died. Tyson found similar characteristic to humans with the ape after havin skeletonized. Platyrrhines (nwm) and catarrhines (owm, apes and humans) Cercopithecoids (owm) and hominoids (apes and humans) Hominids and hylobatids ( lesser apes ) families; same as hominidae. Pongines (pongo) and hominines/homininae (goriila, pan and hominini) Hominini includes genus homo and fossil humans. A cladogram is a statement of evolutionary relationships. Share a common ancestor with chimpanzees that we don"t share with gorillas gorillas. Humans and chimpanzees are more closely related than they are to. Longest arms relative to leg length out of any primate. Brachiators locomote with arms rather than legs. Humans evolved from a suspensory ancestor; important to study and understand the hylobatids. Would not be able to do the things that we are able to do if we did not evolve from a suspensory ancestor.
