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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

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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

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Adaptations of Primates

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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

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The Primate Family Tree

www.greatapetrust.org

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Prosimians

Lemur

LorisTarsier

www.wildmadagascar.org

www.ninme.com

www.kostich.com

What do you notice about their eyes?

Why?

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New World Monkeys

www.wildanimalpark.co.uk

Howler MonkeySpider Monkey

www.luminous-landscape.com

Found in South and Central America

Notice the functioning

tail.

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Baboons

www.jao.com

Old World MonkeysFound in Africa and Asia

What are the TWO main differences between new and old world monkeys?

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Apes

From Asia

Gibbons

www.shoarns.com

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Apes

From Asia

Orangutangs

www.wwf.no

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Apes

Gorillas

From Africa

www.de.wikipedia.org

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Apes

www.it.wikipedia.org

BonobosFrom Africa

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Apes

www.seaworld.org

ChimpanzeesFrom Africa

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All of this evolution lead to us!!!

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The End!