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In class, your professor shows you the skulls of three mammals. In one, the eye would be fully enclosed by bone. In the second, there is a bony circle around where the eye goes, but it is open in the back. In the third, the place where the eye would be is not encircled by bone at all. This suggests to you that

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This suggests to you that

The first one is an anthropoid primate; the fully enclosed orbit is probably beneficial in an organism that relies heavily on vision.

Anthropoids are a group of primates currently represented by New and Old World monkeys, great apes and humans. They differ from other groups of primates such as strepsirrhines (lemurs) by several dental and cranial features (postorbital closure, shorter muzzles, increased vision due to more frontal eye sockets, fused frontal bone). The common ancestor of living anthropoids - including monkeys, apes and humans - arose in Africa and that the group had already branched into many species at that time.

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