Chapter

24 - Reading Guide
This guide is just to help you get the main points of the reading you will not turn it in & I am not going
to post an answer key.

Questions from Chapter 24:

1. What is a primate?

2. What makes prosimians (lemurs & bushbabies) different than other primate
species?

3. Did humans evolve from chimpanzees? Explain.

4. What is a hominin? Are chimpanzees hominins?

5. According to your book, what is the largest # of hominin species that ever lived at
one time?

6. What are Neanderthals and did they interbreed with modern humans?

7. Describe 3 unique features of our species.