Primate Groups

Primate Groups

1. New World Monkey

   • Spider monkey, Cebus
     • Prehensile tail, quadrupel, strictly arboreal, widely separted nostrils

2. Old world Monkeys

   • Baboon
     • Quadrupeled, ground living, nostrils close together, non-prehensile tail

3. Great Apes

   • Gibbon, Gorilla, Chimpanzee, Orangutan
     • Brow ridge, brachiating, mainly ground living, flattened nose

4. Hominins

   • Australopithecus, H. Erectus, H. Sapiens
     • Bipedal due to modified feet, legs etc.
       • Large cerebral cortex, reduced canines, nose, prominent chin
         • reduced eye ridges, highly sensitive skin with short body hair