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| Locomotion by swinging arm-over-arm. |
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| A classification system based on order of evolutionary branching rather than on present similarities and differences. |
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| A social pattern among animal species where there are recognized individual differences in power, influence, and access to resources and mating. Found in many primate species. |
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| The period of female fertility or the signals indicating this condition. |
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| Cleaning the fur of another animal, which promotes social cohesion. Common among primate groups |
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| The relative ability of the brain to acquire, store, retrieve, and process information. |
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| The ability to touch (oppose) the thumb to the tips of the other fingers on the same hand. |
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| A classification system based on existing phenotypic features and adaptations. |
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| The period after birth during which offspring require the care of adults to survive. |
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| Having the ability to grasp. |
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| Walking on all four limbs. |
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| three-dimensional vision; depth perception |
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| A communication system that uses arbitrary but agreed-upon sounds and signs for meaning. |
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| A classification based on similarities and differences. In biology, the science of categorizing organisms and of naming them so as to reflect their relationships. |
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| Who created the taxonomic system of naming organisms? |
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| In a phenetic taxonomy, humans are in the Family of Hominidae because why? |
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| They are habitual bipeds. |
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| Which two specie share the genus Pan? |
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| Which classification system is based on order of evolutionary branching? |
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| The most primitive primates that have a moist naked outer noses are called? |
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| Most primates share which characteristics? |
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-stereoscopic vision
-manual dexterity
- high levels of intelligence |
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| Which primate is least social? |
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| The suborder of Anthropoidea includes which? |
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| Which primate has a flat face, no prehinsile feet, but the most dexterous hands? |
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| stereoscopic vision is an evolutionary adaptation to what and what else is it called? |
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| also called true dept perception; an adaptation to living in the trees |
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| The Old World catarrhine primates consist of what? |
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| The notochord is the evolutionary precursor to what? |
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| Traits that allow members of superfamily Hominoidea to clim and hang from branches include what? |
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- a flexible shoulder joint
- a stronger collarbone. |
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| New World and Old work monkeys can be distinguished by which feature? |
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