ANT101H5 Lecture Notes - Stereopsis, Ape, Ethology
28 Nov 2013
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Basic characteristics of primates include: evolutionary factors pg. 120 to 121 // grasping hands and feet: being generalized they have primitive and ancestral traits, primate group tendencies - grasping hands and grasping feet and eyes, locomotion to be upright, diet. Cows on the other hand have flat teeth for grinding. Primates tend to have a simple set of teeth. Primates dental columns and molars differ from others: locomotion and habitat primates locomotion is a little different from other animals. Print outline of primate groups for tutorial and know this sheet for the exam from this slide. Answer: 1. in large part it is because anthropology uses a comparative approach to evolution. We want to compare things because we don"t have any other members of our own genus left alone theyre all extinct. So the apes and other primates are as close as we can get.
