ANTA01H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Old World Monkey, Ape, Rhinarium
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Intelligence mental capacity: ability to learn, reason, or comprehend and interpret information, facts, relationships, and meanings; the capacity to solve problems, whether through the application of previously acquired knowledge of through insight. Primates members of the mammalian order primates, which includes lemurs, lorises, tarsiers, monkeys, apes, and humans. Anthropoids members of a suborder of primates, the infraorder anthropoidea. Traditionally, the suborder includes monkeys, apes, and humans. Omnivorous having a diet consisting of many food types, such as plant materials, meat, and insects. Stereoscopic vision the condition whereby visual images are, to varying degrees, superimposed. This provides for depth perception, or viewing the external environment in three dimensions. Stereoscopic vision is partly a function of structures in the brain. Binocular vision vision characterized by overlapping visual fields provided by forward-facing eyes. Hemispheres the two halves of the cerebrum that are connected by a dense mass of fibers. (the cerebrum is the large rounded outer portion of the brain).
