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More newly evolved, specialized |
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Dental Formula
(What are primates?) |
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Dental Formula
(What do primates have?) |
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| incisors, canines, premolars and molars |
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| 200-250 species, have few derived traits and are therefore hard to define. |
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- Body hair
- Long gestation, live birth
- Mammary glands
- Heterodont
- Homeothermy
- Increased brain size
- Capacity for learning and behavioral flexibiliy
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| Most primates have five digits on their hands and feet, which is called _____. |
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Primates
(Hands and feet) |
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| Primates have prehensile hands and feet with opposable thumbs and big toes. |
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Primate characteristics
(hands)
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| Primates, have more tactile sensitivity, primates have sensitive finger tips/prints & most have nails instead of claws. |
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| Primates have retained a clavicle (collarbone) from the common mammalian ancestor. |
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| Primates have steroscopic, binocular vision, which gives them distance and depth perception. |
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| Primates have a reduces relience on the sense of smell. |
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| Primates have an expansion of increased complexity of the brain |
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| Primates eat an omnivorous, generalized diet, although most eat a majority of one food type. |
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Primates
(Where they live) |
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| Most primates are partially or totally arboreal (tree-living) |
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| Other Primate Characteristics |
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- Tendency towards erect posture
- Delayed maturation and extension of life span
- Greater dependence on learned behavior
- Tendency to live in social groups with males
- Diurnal activity patterns
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The most primative primates
Characteristics:
More laterally placed eyes
shorter gestation & maturation
dental comb
grooming claw
unfused mandible
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Prosimians
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All Old World (Africa and Asia)
Lemurs (Madagascar)
Tarsier (SE Asia)
Lorises, Bushbabies (galago) (India, Sri Lanka, SE Asia, Africa) |
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Monkeys, apes and humans
- Larger body size
- Larger brains
- Reduced olfaction
- Increased reliance on vision
- Fully enclosed eye orbits
- Fused mandible
- Longer gestation, maturation
- Increased parental care
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| Most primates have 5 digits on hands and toes |
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- Marsupials
- Egg-laying
- Placental
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3 groups: Caultrichids, Cesids, Atelids
Suborder Anthropoids: NWM, OWM, apes & humans
Broad, flat noses, laterally-facing nostrils
- all are arboreal (tree-living)
- All are Diurnal (Day living) except Owl monkey (nocturnal)
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- Smallest of NWM
- Marmosets, tamarins, pygmy
- Polyandrous
- Many males, 1 female
- Males are paternal
- Gives birth to twins
- Dwarfing phenomenon
- 2.1.3.2 Dental Formula
- Monomorphic
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EG squirrel monkeys, capuchins
- Semi-prehensile tails- Cannot support full body weight with tail
- Many live in multi-male, multi-female groups
- 2.1.3.2 Dental Formula
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- Fully prehensile tails
- 2.1.3.2 Dental Formula
- Spider monkey (Fruqivore) , muriqul, howler monkey ( eats leaves)
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2 Superfamoues:
Cercopithecoids & Hominoids
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- OWM
- Cercapithecines
- Macaques, Baboons, mandrils
- Derived features: cheek pouches, ischial callisides
- Multi-male, multi-female
- Harem- one male, many females
- Sexual dimorphism
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Lesser apes, great apes & Humans
2.1.2.3
No tails
short trunk shoulder
adapted for suspensory locomotion |
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| Humans & Bipedal ancestors |
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| Must look at primates in their natural habitat, in context of ecology |
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relationship of organism & its environment
- Temp
- Rainfall
- Resources
- Predators
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| Natural Selection acts on behaviors environment plays a role |
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- Leaf eating monkeys
- sacculated gut
- specialized molar teeth
- shearing crests
- Leaf monkeys, Langurs
- O.W.M
- 2.1.2.3
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| Used to describe noses that have downward-faing nostrils |
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Lesser apes & gibbons
- suspensory locomotors
- monogamous pairs
- Male stays with female when she is not reproductive (prego, lactating)
- male is paternal
- territorial
- monomorphic
- same body size
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Asia: Orangutan
found in Boreno & Sumatra
Large bodied Frugivores
solitary- hoyau
Males are dramtically larger than females secondary sexual characteristics
Long calls
throat pouch & cheek pads
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Gorillas (African Apes)
Harem structure: 1 male, many females
High sexual dimorphism
mountain gorillas- thicker longer, fur, could at hih latitude, shorter stockier, barrel chest, large lungs
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| receptors for OT & AVP are in key regions of reward pathway |
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| A layer of tissue in the eye of many vertabrate animals |
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| What best describes an adaptation of colobine monkeys? |
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| they have developed a digestive tract that allows them to digest leaves |
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| What difference do orangutans hold relative to the other great apes? |
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| Organutans lead mostly solitary lives |
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| routinely gives birth to twins |
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| For most people, the language areas of the brain are located in the: |
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