ANTH 1113 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Western Lowland Gorilla, Ring-Tailed Lemur, Cayo Santiago
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Some characterisics: prehensile hands and feet, binocular stereoscopic vision, greater size and complexity of the brain, extensive social learning. Suborder: strepsirrhini: ring tailed lemur, aye-aye, emperor tamrin. Suborder- haplorrhini: tarsiers, monkeys, apes, dry noses, lots of facial expressions and large brains. Parvaorder: platyrrhini- new world monkeys: characterisics: lat noses and prehensile, families: cebidae (capuchins), aoidae ( night monkeys), pithecidae (bald ukari), Parvorder: catarrhini: characterisics: narrow noses, tails (if present) aren"t prehensile, superfamilies: cercopithecoidea (old world monkeys) and hominoidea (apes) Superfamily: hominoideas (apes: characterisics: very intelligent, split from old world monkeys around 25 million years ago. Superfamily: hominoidea: humans, western lowland gorilla, bonobo, orangutan. Family: hylobaidae (lesser apes: characterisics: leapers and brachiators, gibbons and siamang, swing from branch to branch. Family: hominidae (greater apes: gorillas, pan, pongo, homo. Early studies largely focused on medical experiments and assessment of intelligence by civilizing.
