Exam 3 Study guide

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What is the Grande Coupure? What epoch did it end?

What is the PETM extinction event and what epoch did it end?

What is a proprimate?

What is the arboreal hypothesis?

What is the visual predation hypothesis? What is the angiosperm hypothesis?

In what epoch can you find the genus, Carpolestes and what were its defining physical characteristics?

In what epoch did Aegyptopithecus exist? What infraorder does it belong to?

What continent did Gigantopithecus occupy?

Where can you find Dryopithecus?

Sivapithecus closely resembles what modern-day primate?

What continent can we find the genus Proconsul?

Archicebus

Basal anthropoids

proconsulid (ch 8 end)

Who are Mary and Louis Leakey?

Which academics argue for the patchy forest hypothesis regarding bipedal evolution?

Who proposed the provision hypothesis and what does this hypothesis entail?

Who proposed the hunting hypothesis and what does this hypothesis entail?

Who was Toumai and what was his cranial capacity? What is his genus and species?

What distinguishing features does the genus, Paranthropus exhibit?

Who was Lucy and why was she an important find?

What two key physical traits are markers of humanity?

Who was Sahelanthropus tchadensis? What was his common name or nickname?

Ardipithecus ramidus,

Australopithecus,

Au. afarensis

Au. africanus

Au. robustus

Au. sebida

Oldowan complex

Lower Paleolithic

Homo habilis