ANTH 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Fovea Centralis, Dentition, Binocular Vision
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Notes for test #2: primitive traits- traits passed on unchanged from an ancestor, derived traits- traits that develop in a particular. Increased parental care: large brain and body size, homeothermy- constant body temperature, specialized skeleton: protection of the eye, having a clavicle. The senses and the brain: reduced olfaction. Decreased snout reliance on vision: expansion and increased complexity of the brain. In particular, in the neocortex the visual and association areas. Primate diet and teeth: generally omnivorous, reflected in their generalized dentition, most eat a combination of fruits, leaves, and insects, most have four types of teeth: incisors, canines, premolars and molars. Number of each tooth type in each quadrant of the mouth. Dental arcade: shapes of mouth, human"s parabola, primates; u-shaped. Longer hands and slightly curved: vertical clinging and leaping, arm swinging, called braciation-apes, prehensile tails- nwm new world monkeys. Superfamily: lorisoidea: found in africa and asia, nocturnal, quadrupedal.
