ANTH 311 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Allopatric Speciation, Monkey River, Adaptive Radiation
23 May 2014
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Box 3. 1 mosaic nature of human evolution. For the most part, the material in this chapter is not covered in class, but you need to know it. Important concepts in understanding primate evolution are introduced, such as adaptive radiation, allopatric speciation, plate tectonics, and continental drift. Please note - on page 60 of the 4th edition, in the section on evolutionary history, Strier briefly describes the hurricane iris in monkey river, belize as an example of the kind of impact that natural disturbance has on primate groups. This is described in much greater detail in lecture and you should be familiar with the details not covered in the text. Also, the book indicates that the entire 52 ha habitat was destroyed. In fact the entire 9600 ha forest fragment was severely impacted. Only 52 ha were intensely studied at the time of the storm. This section also introduces how both human and natural phenomena (large scale or localized) impact speciation.
