ANTH 1001 : Test Two Notes
Document Summary
Primates characteristics relative to other mammals branchiation(swinging),bipedalism(walking on 2 limbs). Prehensile hands and feet- ability to grasp things. Flexible limb structure-(quadrupedalism(walking on 4 limbs), leaping: quadrupedalism- knuclewalking, slow climbing (chimps, leaping and jumping-(uacari) (sifaka, brachiation-swinging (gibbons, bipeadalism- walking on two limbs, primarily hind. (bonobo) (sifaka) Encephalized- compared to the size of primates" bodies, K-selected: born immature, require a lot of care, longer pregnancy, longer. Species - groups of (actually or potentially) interbreeding organisms that are reproductively isolated from other such groups. Systematic - study of the relationships among groups of organisms. Taxonomy - system for classifying groups of organisms. We use the taxonomic scheme devised by carolus linnaeus. How to write formal taxonomic name for a species: genus species or genus species: homo sapiens. After using name once, you can abbreviate: h. sapiens: major differences in the use of the taxonomic scheme by linnaeus and modern biologists. To linnaeus there was no fundamental difference among the taxonomic categories, species kingdom.
