ANT 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Ovulation, Gibbon, Basal Metabolic Rate

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANT 1101
• Professor: Sherry Fukuzawa

Document Summary

Lecture 5 & 6 primates & basics of primate behaviour. Chapter 6: an overview of the primates & chapter 7: primate behaviour. Primatology the study of non-human primate biology and behaviour** Analogies structures that are superficially similar: share a similar function, but not similar ancestry, built from different parts, do not pass through similar stages during embryonic development. Homologies structures possessed by 2 different organisms that arise in a similar fashion: may not have the same function, but stem from common ancestry, pass through similar stages during embryonic development. Traits unique to primates: arboreal (able to live in trees, stereoscopic vision 3-d vision; allows for depth perception, eyes placed toward the front of the face (not to the sides) Provides for binocular vision overlapping visual fields, allowing depth perception: colour vision. 2 incisors, 1 canine, 2 premolars, 3 molars. Nwm has 2. 1. 3. 3 extra premolar: primate skeleton.