ANTH100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Bushmeat, Brain Size, Clavicle

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTH100
• Professor: Nicole Hayes

Document Summary

Use slides for studying with the notes i took on them. Textbook is great for terminology chapter questions and glossary. Dispute over classification of chimpanzees/bonobos and humans. Primates are very social, resilient, creative, mostly omnivores. Different of chimps and gorillas: teeth. Females have overlapping territories with offspring and different males. Recently the bonobo has been discovered: live in central africa, only a few hundred thousands, not as robust as chimpanzees, not as powerful. Lecture 8 oct. 2nd: longer legs, strong female bonds and male-female bonds, females are able to mate for a much longer time, lot of sexual play same and opposite sex (more about social relationships than reproducing) Both chimps and bonobos have a very fluid social structure. Chimps use tools to help them get food sticks for termites, stones for nuts. Forest chimps hunt for meat in groups (cultural thing some groups more carnivorous than others) Haplorbines: tarsiers, old world monkeys, new world monkeys, apes.