Across
- 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.
Down
- 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.