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Adaptations of Primates. Opposable Thumbs. Practice Exercise : Write your name with your pencil without the use of your thumb. Also, try and tie your shoe and get something out of your wallet or purse. www.en.wikipedia.org. Adaptations of Primates. Grasping Hands. www.uoguelph.ca. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Adaptations of Primates
www.en.wikipedia.org
Practice Exercise: Write your name with your pencil without the use of your thumb. Also, try and tie your shoe and get something out of your wallet or purse.
Opposable Thumbs
Grasping Hands
Practice Exercise: Think of all of the things you could not do without your independently moving fingers.
www.uoguelph.ca
Adaptations of Primates
Adaptations of Primates
Binocular VisionPractice Exercise:
1.Determine your field of vision with your arms spread wide.
2.Test your binocular vision using a pencil and a partner.
Adaptations of Primates
The Primate Family Tree
www.greatapetrust.org
Prosimians
Lemur
LorisTarsier
www.wildmadagascar.org
www.ninme.com
www.kostich.com
What do you notice about their eyes?
Why?
New World Monkeys
www.wildanimalpark.co.uk
Howler MonkeySpider Monkey
www.luminous-landscape.com
Found in South and Central America
Notice the functioning
tail.
Baboons
www.jao.com
Old World MonkeysFound in Africa and Asia
What are the TWO main differences between new and old world monkeys?
Apes
From Asia
Gibbons
www.shoarns.com
Apes
From Asia
Orangutangs
www.wwf.no
Apes
Gorillas
From Africa
www.de.wikipedia.org
Apes
www.it.wikipedia.org
BonobosFrom Africa
Apes
www.seaworld.org
ChimpanzeesFrom Africa
All of this evolution lead to us!!!
The End!
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