What features distinguish primates from other mammals? This question is of central importance to Biological Anthropology - the study of primate adaptation and evolution. In addition to having ...

This video could be used to introduce a discussion about animal groups. Pupils could list the characteristics of mammals and identify animals as mammals based on these characteristics. They could ...

However, at some point primates must have evolved from ancestors that lacked these characteristics ... to living primates than to any other mammalian group that nonetheless lacked some of these ...