How to build a primate - 3 3D Models

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The following collection includes:

-A non-primate mammal.

-A member of the primate suborder Strepsirrhini (the strepsirrhines) -- the moist rhinarium (wet-nosed) primates.

-A member of the primate suborder Haplorrhini (the haplorrhines) -- the dry rhinarium primates.

-A member of the Hominini tribe, i.e., the hominins (the hominins are within the suborder Haplorrhini).

These taxonomic categories include both extant and extinct species.

So, while humans are the only extant hominin (bipedal ape), there were many others in the recent past, like Australopithecus afarensis in the Pliocene epoch, 3.9-2.9 mya.

Similarly, haplorrhines include living monkeys, apes, and tarsiers, but also extinct monkeys such as Aegyptopithecus (in the early Oligocene, 38-29.5 mya).

Likewise, strepsirrhines include lemurs, lorises, galagos, and pottos, but also the extinct families Omomyidae and Adapidae (55-34 mya in the Eocene), not to mention extinct giant lemurs on Madagascar that went extinct only a few thousand years ago.