ANT101H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Shoulder Joint, Chordate, Quadrupedalism
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Ant101: primates: our contemporary relatives & the basics of primatology. Biological or physical anthropology, (both are the same thing), Primatology this is a subfield, that examines behavior and biology of nonhuman primates. The study of non-human primate biology & behavior. Do not pass through similar stages during embryonic development. Organisms do not share a common ancestor. Structures possessed by 2 different organisms that arise in a similar fashion. Pass through similar stages during embryonic development. Primate characteristics life in the trees, key evolutionary characteristic of primate, Arborealism (life on the trees), we as humans have some adaptations to climb trees, ability to judge distance this involves stereoscopic vision: 3-d vision, we all primates can judge distance, 2ndly your eyes have to be facing the same direction, binocular vision, eyes are forward facing, increasing depth perception. Color vision also helps us to judge distance, this aids us in distance,
