ANTH 1001 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Carl Linnaeus, Ultraviolet, Promin
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Suite of traits that characterize primates: eyes positioned at front of skull, providing s-d vision, prehensile (i. e. , grasping) hands and feet, nails, not claws. 7: bone on side of orbit (i. e. , bone next to the eye, decreased reliance on smell, short snout, postorbital bar. Increase size of brain: give birth to one or two offspring, long period of juvenile development, 18 years dependent on parents, arboreal theory. Theories on adaptive significance of traits that characterize primates (pp. 120-121: early primates were adapting to the life in the trees, visual predation theory, fruit eating theory, early primates were predators of insects, early primates foraged on fruits. Insectivory insects: frugivory fruit, folivory foliage (leaves and vines, omnivory varied diet. Categories of locomotion: (vertical clinging and) leaping: quadrupedalism (running on all four, arm-swinging, brachiation, bipedality (walking on two legs) Multiple: noyau- adults are dispersed and do not form a social group.
