Transcript General Features / Trends of Apes / Humans

Prehistoric Cultures
Class Slides Set 13A
Hominoids: Early Apes and Humans
OUTTAKES
Tim Roufs’ section
Sivapithecus
General Features / Trends of Apes / Humans
All living apes
show forelimb-dominated
locomotion
(They climb, swing, or hang about by
their arms -- “brachiation”)
Miocene Hominoids
back to the
“Anthropoids”
= all living and extinct
monkeys, apes and humans
Anthropoids
Back to the
“Hominoids”
all living and extinct apes and
humans
General Features and Major Evolutionary
Trends of Apes and Humans
(Hominoidea)
Understanding Physical Anthropology and Archaeology, 8th ed., p. 131
Hominoids
General Features
and
Major Evolutionary Trends
of
Apes and Humans
General Features / Trends of Apes / Humans
(Began m.y.a.)
Holocene
Pleistocene
Pliocene
Miocene
Oligocene
Eocene
Paleocene
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1.8
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General Features / Trends of Apes / Humans
(Began m.y.a.)
Holocene
Pleistocene
Pliocene
Miocene
Oligocene
Eocene
Paleocene
0.01
1.8
5
23
34
55
65
Understanding Physical Anthropology and Archaeology, 8th ed., p. 183
Understanding Physical Anthropology and Archaeology, 8th ed., p. 191
Oligocene Catarrhines
Oligocene
Catarrhines
Understanding Physical Anthropology and Archaeology, 8th ed., p. 183
“Times to Remember” WebPage
Understanding Physical Anthropology and Archaeology, 8th ed., p. 191
General Features / Trends of Apes / Humans
Apes
flourished in the
later part of the Miocene
ca. 15 – 5 mya
General Features / Trends of Apes / Humans
Well represented in the fossil record by
such forms as:
Sivapithecus . . .
Rampithecus
Kenyapithecus
Ouranopithecus
Dryopithecus
Proconsul
Oreopithecus
Gigantopithecus
General Features / Trends of Apes / Humans
Rudapithecus
Pasalar
Nyanzapithecus
Afropithecus
Turkanopithecus
Rangwapithecus
and others
General Features / Trends of Apes / Humans
(Began m.y.a.)
Holocene
Pleistocene
Pliocene
Miocene
Oligocene
Eocene
Paleocene
0.01
1.8
5
23
34
55
65
Understanding Physical Anthropology and Archaeology, 8th ed., p. 191
Prehistoric Hominoidea
Miocene hominoids:
Proconsul
(Miocene “dental ape”)
Oreopithecus
Pliopithecus
Dryopithecus
Sivapithecus
Gigantopithecus