Exam 9: Primate Origins and Evolution: the First 50 Million Years

Plesiadapiforms are also called:

The Fayum desert has yielded fossils of the following three primates:

Apes went extinct in southern Europe (including France, Spain, Italy, and Greece) during the late Miocene, probably as a result of:

Which Eocene organisms had clear primate characteristics like a postorbital bar, opposable thumbs, nails, and a large brain?

Which fossil group is characterized by an eye orbit fully enclosed by bone?

The most likely contender for the common ancestor of all later catarrhines is:

Apes first appear in Europe and Asia from about:

Canadian primate paleontologist David Begun proposes that climate changes in Europe prompted late Miocene apes to:

The arboreal hypothesis proposes that defining primate characteristics were adaptations to life in the trees, such as:

A species that is adapted to a wide range of environments, climates, and diets is:

The space between the canine and the first premolar in the lower jaw of some primates is a(n):

Like that of Dryopithecus, a modern gorilla mandible has:

The visual predation hypothesis proposes that:

Comparisons of tooth wear in living apes and extinct Miocene apes suggest that some extinct species of apes ate:

Paleocene organisms that may have been the first primates were:

The northern African fossil primate called Biretia may be an early anthropoid, based on the morphology of its:

A difference between Miocene apes and modern apes is the:

The most distinctive feature of ape dentition, which clearly distinguishes apes from Old World monkeys, is:

Basal anthropoids are:

Based on genetic analysis of living primates calibrated by the fossil record, it is estimated that apes and Old World monkeys diverged into separate lineages around: