ANP 410 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Long Bone, Great Chain Of Being, Insectivore

• School: Stony Brook University
• Department: Biological Anthropology
• Course: ANP 410
• Professor: Gabrielle Russo

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Study online at quizlet. com/_4mltex: adaptation: evolved traits that better suit an organism to its, constructional morphology: historical factor - phylogeny environment and increases fitness, adaptationist programme: everything has a function. Darwin identified a mechanism by which change occurs and produces adaptations. "organism are good at what they do because evolution through natural selection has favored features that promote representation and survival: de vinci: -drew bodies and bones (human anatomy is well studied, different locomotor strategies: -arboreal quadrupedalism. Very detailed (human anatomy well studied: arboreal quadrupedalism: -3d space. Slow climbers (lorises) --> use crypsis and lack tail. Large-bodied primates bridge: balancing side: non-food side, bark biters: (aye-aye) : the primate might eat fruits because broad incisors are needed to bite into fruits: carolus linnaeus: -used common morphological attributes to group organisms. Grouped humans with other primates in the animal kingdom. Profound shifts in thinking about the place of humans in nature (humans share traits with other animals: the chewing cycle: 1.