ANT 301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Premolar, Knuckle-Walking, Atelidae
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Said would be on the test important to know. Fused frontal (anthropoids) unfused frontal (prosimians) Instead of two bones like prosimians, there is only one bone. Postorbital closure lack of closure: differe(cid:374)t degrees of (cid:858)(cid:271)o(cid:374)ey(cid:859) prote(cid:272)tio(cid:374, protects from the jaw muscles when chewing, the orbital is completely isolated from everything else, only mammals on the planet where this occurs. They claws because they need to be able to cling to the trees (generally) Tend to eat more fruit do not carve into the bark to get gum (steal it or eat the gum that comes out natural. Have large mustaches (usually: only one feel male in the group will breed. The other females and males help take care of the 4 (on average) babies the mating female has every year. (multiple males mate with the females) Brown capuchin use tools to break into nuts. One of the biggest brain relative to its body size.
