Science Notebook - Student Edition

162 Primate Evolution

Haplorhines

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Primate

Evolution

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Classify the subgroups of anthropoids by completing the diagram.

Anthropoids

Example: tamarins

Example: humans

Example: baboons

Summarize primate evolution by completing the time line below.

50 mya:

35–25 mya:

85 mya:

60 mya:

Section 16.1 Primates (continued)

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Analyze the theory that the rise of flowering trees had a great

impact on primate evolution. Explain why.

(^) SUMMARIZE