ANTA01H3 Lecture Notes - Thumb
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Our hands (feet) are well adapted for grasping things (opposable thumb) Improvement of visual features at the expense of the nose. Parallax (closing your eyes and them opening them awkwardly one after the other whein you re bored) Eat a lot of fruit (also insects and leaves) Mostly arboreal, living in tropical forest (trees) Mostly equatorial (because most forest are around the equator. K selected relative to mammals ( an adaptive strategy whereby individuals produce relatively few offspring, in whom they invest increased parental care. ) R-selected a reproductive strategy that emphasizes relatively large numbers of offspring and reduced parental care . Homologies: similarities between organisms based on descent from a common ancestor . Analogies: similarities between organisms based strictly on common function, with no assumed common evolutionary descent . Chimps and bonobos are the closest related ancestors of humans. Chimps and twigs; for termites and eating. Bonobos and stones; trained to made sharpened stones.
