Where did we come from? Part III
In case you want to go back to Part 1 or Part 2 . (But you don't need to!) No, you absolutely don't need to revise or remember anything from the previous 2 posts. Here's where we left off: And all you really need to remember is the key words at the bottom of the image. We're all eukaryotes => have an advanced cell structure We're all animals => have the ability to "move it!" We're all chordates => we have a convenient nervous system We're all mammals => we have mammary glands and hair We're all primates => we have complex brains and grasping hands MOVING ON So, with the advantages of several ancestors, we made it to the group of advanced primates which are divided into the tarsiers, the new world monkeys, the old world monkeys and the apes. The last 3 (Happlorhines minus the Tarsiers) are also collectively called the simians or anthropoids. Humans fall under the Superfamily Hominoidea , and hence are a...