ANTH 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Western Lowland Gorilla, Southeast Asia
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Primatologists achieve insights into human evolution through comparisons to other primate species. Researchers must guard against anthropomorphism, or the imposition of human characteristics of non-human animals. make sense of primate diversity. Taxonomies- classification schemes have been created by primatologists to. Taxonomist- classify organisms into groups arranged in hierarchy: kingdom, Primates- are an order in the system. Traditional taxonomies of primates compare phenotypes and adaptations. Morphology or shapes and sizes of organisms are used in traditional. Primates with similar levels of complexity in similar environments are grouped in. Traditional taxonomies recognizes 4 evolutionary grade: the same evolutionary grade. taxonomies. Cladistic taxonomies of primates grouped animals with shared and derived. Homologies represent similarities due to common ancestry. Homoplasy represents cases of convergent or parallel evolution. Cladistics- an alternative taxonomic method based evolutionary relatedness. Cladistic taxonomist- reconstruct degrees of similarity and difference that result alone. from. Have a rhinarium, or upper lip directly attached to gums.