ANTHR101 Lecture Notes - Brachiation, 5 Fingers, Clavicle

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTHR101
• Professor: Dan Syrotuik

Document Summary

Eterodonts means that something has different kinds of teeth. Prehensile hands and feet with pentadactily (means 5 fingers on each hand/foot) People use to refer to this as the measure of intelligence. It"s actually an indication of how long an individual grows after birth and how much behavior is learned. Means we don"t need our hands to balance and can use them to grasp and manipulate objects. These type of animals tend to live in environments where the trees are relatively small so most of the food is not on far away branches, it"s more in the middle. Not very adaptive to life on the ground. Arms/hands/fingers are very long compared to their legs. Not overly adaptive to life on the ground (vulnerable on the ground) Long hands/arms/fingers make them adaptive to living in trees. Relatively long arms compared to legs however not to the extent of brachiation.