Anthropology 1020E Lecture Notes - Bonobo, Dentition, Premolar

• School: Western University
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: Anthropology 1020E
• Professor: Alexis Dolphin

Document Summary

Tendency toward erect posture: always a few exceptions, sitting up strait not necessarily bipedalism. Flexible limb structure: adaptation for living in trees. Hands and feet with a high degree of prehensility: we"ve pretty much lost this in our feet. Bodies are usually parallel to the ground. Support alternative form one forelimb to the other: gibbons are the best at this. Different types of teeth for different jobs. Depth perception: eyes at the front of skull. Expansion and increased complexity of the brain: more complex with apes and even more in humans, large relative to our body size. Fewer offspring and delayed maturation: fewer offspring with more care required. Depend on flexible, learned behavior: maturation has to happen when they come out of our bodies because they just wouldn"t fit out of pelvis, strong variation for how involved males are with babies within. Anatomy: tooth comb, grooming claw, larger olfactory bulb. Monkeys, apes and humans: larger body size (relative to prosimians)