ANTH 1001 : Anthropology 1001 Test 2 Notes
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Fierce and grumpy planet of the apes & king kong. Test between college freshmen and chimps had scores not so different from each other. Been known to go crazy and pull people"s faces off. Name change in primate suborders: traditional: prosimii/anthropoidea, tarsier in prosimii, but genetically more similar to anthropoids, proposed: strepsirrhini/haplorrhini, moves tarsiers. Reclassification of the great apes (family names: traditional: pongidae/hominidae, proposed: all hominidae; different subfamilies and tribe levels. Earliest trend in primate studies, just describing the primates. Diane fossey: studied gorillas, found that gorillas mainly vegetarians, peaceful if not threatened, killed because of escalating violence. Behavioral ecology theoretical paradigm that looks at the relationship between environment and behavior. Sociobiology: theoretical paradigm that looks at the relationship between genes and behavior. Flexible limb structure: refers to skeletal and muscular anatomy, allows movement in different ways. Not mutually exclusive forms of movement: quadrupedalisms, leaping, brachiation, bipedalism. Quadrupedalism: using all 4 limbs to walk around, eg.
