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.