January 26: Predicting Our Past Exercise and video.

Today we went through a little exercise on what the earliest primates might have looked like.  We started by illustrating the misconception of the common evolution picture above, and then began to identify the specific characteristics of gorillas, chimps, bonobos, orangutans and gibbons before we predicted the earliest primates.  We also watched this video from PBS/Nova to wrap it up: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/evolution/first-primates.html. They should be working on their project for homework!!