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Did hominoids come from anthropoids?
Yes, hominoids and anthropoids are both groups of primates that belong to the same superfamily, Hominoidea. Hominoids include apes and humans, while anthropoids include apes, monkeys, and humans. Therefore, hominoids did not come from anthropoids; rather, they share a common ancestor within the primate evolutionary tree.
What features distinguish anthropoids from prosimians?
Anthropoids are monkeys and apes including humans. They differ from prosimians whose primitive features include a tooth comb that helps them groom and lateral eyes. Prosimians tend to be larger as well.
What features distinguish anthropoids from strepsirrhines?
The strepsirrhines are distinguished from the anthropoids mainly by having retained a lot of primitive eutherian features.
What group does a myriapod come from?
anthropoids
Where did anthropoids come from?
Humans, chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, orangutans, and gibbons, as well as many extinct man-like creatures of past geologic ages, such as australopithicus. The term ''anthropoid'' comes from Greek, and literally means ''man-like''.
Where have the fossil remains of the earliest anthropoids been found?
iN THE SAHARA
What is the phylum of the beetle?
they are anthropoids.
Do anthropoids have tails?
Some do. some birds. like with their tail feather.
Is a panda a mammal fish bird reptile amphibians anthropoids or mollusks?
mammal
What is order primates?
The Primate Order is a Mammalian order consisting of 5 grades split into prosimians (grade 1 and 2) and anthropoids (grade 3, 4 and 5) (each with subdivisions), grade 1 are all extinct and resemble todays treeshrews (which are not primates), grade 2 are prosimians such as lemurs, grade 3 are the tarsiers which have characteristics of both prosimians and anthropoids but DNA shows they are anthropoids. Grade 4 are the monkeys which are divided into New and Old world (and each again have subdivisions). Grade 5 are the apes (lesser and great)
When did hominoids split from other anthropoids and what is the chronologic name for this time period?
The Miocene Era?
What factor contributed to the split of two groups of anthropoids about 45 million years ago?
drift of the continents
