ANTA01H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Human Hunting, Rhinarium, Ovulation
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Primates: members of the mammalian order primates, which includes lemurs, tarsiers, monkeys, apes, and humans. Anthropoids: members of a suborder of primates, the infraorder anthropoidea. Traditionally this suborder includes monkeys, apes, and humans. Primates have remained quite generalized, meaning that primates have retained several ancestral mammalian traits that some other ancestors have lost over time. Stereoscopic vision: the condition whereby visual images are, to varying degrees, super imposed. This provides for depth perception, or viewing the external environment in three dimensions. (partly a function of structures in the brain) Binocular vision: vision characterized by overlapping visual fields provided by forward facing eyes. (essential to depth perception) Primate adaptation (cid:862)e(cid:374)(cid:448)i(cid:396)o(cid:374)(cid:373)e(cid:374)tal (cid:272)i(cid:396)(cid:272)u(cid:373)sta(cid:374)(cid:272)e(cid:863) refers to several interrelated variables including climate, diet, habitat, and predation. Traditionally the group of characteristics shared by primates has been explained as the result of an adaptation to arboreal living.
