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Human Evolution

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Total cards: 9•Content version: v4•Public deck•Updated: 8/1/2026

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#1
Front (Question)

The most primitive of the primates

Back (Answer)

prosimians

#2
Front (Question)

What do anthropoids include?

Back (Answer)

monkey, apes & humans

#3
Front (Question)

Old world monkey were…

Back (Answer)

larger than New World monkeys. They are diurnal, and are physically different as well Narrow and downward pointing nostrils Longer hind legs than forearms

#4
Front (Question)

New world monkey were…

Back (Answer)

Monkeys range vastly in size - some are quite tiny, like the 6 inch pygmy marmoset, and some are larger - the howler monkey can be up to 3 feet in length.

#5
Front (Question)

New World Monkeys are called…

Back (Answer)

platyrrhines

#6
Front (Question)

Hominoids

Back (Answer)

Includes the great apes + lesser apes

#7
Front (Question)

oldest known biped

Back (Answer)

Ardipithecus ramidus

#8
Front (Question)

Australopithecus afarensis

Back (Answer)

It is thought that A. afarensis was more closely related to the genus Homo, whether as a direct ancestor or a close relative of an unknown ancestor, than any other known primate from the same time.

#9
Front (Question)

Oldest fossils of Homo

Back (Answer)

Homo habilis. First human ancestor to use stone tools.