ANTH 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Simian, Color Vision, Brachiation
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One of the most important characteristics in primates is vision. Color vision is characteristic of anthropoids (monkeys, apes and humans) Sometimes body color patterns are indicative: comparison of primate skulls. The skull of primates has enormous brain case. Full enclosed bony eye socket: arboreal characteristics. Some of the most distinct physical features. All large apes knuckle walk when in terrestrial environment. Of all non humans bonobos walk bipedallly the most (but quad is still primary way of locomotion: primate habitat. Most are arboreal and live in tropical or semitropical areas of the americas, africa and asia. Preservation of primates in past show more widespread. In the past forests were more widespread see ebb and flow of primates with ebb and flow of forests. Humans are the only primate adapted to a fully terrestrial environment; all others spend some times in the trees. Primates in n america were extinct by 35 million years ago: contemporary primates.
