Primate Classification

2. Finger_________, rather than claws, characterize primates
7. Pivotal primates that ‘changed sides’ in the classical vs. cladistic classification of primates.
8. Wings of birds and wings of insects
9. In classic primate taxonomy, the two suborders are __________ and anthropoids.
12. Traits shared by all primates due to common ancestry.
13. The great apes are in the Family ___________.
14. ____________ is the person that conceived the modern method of classifying plants and animals.

1. Scientist who created a branching diagram to illustrate evolution.
3. The cladistic method of sorting primates focuses on shared ____________ traits.
4. Primates have a maximum number of________molars in their dental formulae (this represents only one half of one jaw).
5. Number of suborders in the Order Primates.
6. In the cladistic classification of primate taxonomy, the prosimians were re‐named ____________.
7. The total number of digits found on primate hands (or feet); a trait shared with other mammals
10. The typical number of infants that female primates have at a time.
11. Platyrrhines are ________ World primates.