CAS AN 101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Color Vision, Hominidae, Prosimian
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Homologies reflect similarities inherited through common genetic ancestry, while analogies. Humans share homologies reflecting a common arboreal heritage with other primates, Taxonomy is the classification of organisms into categories according to genetic relatedness. Chapter 7 the primates nonhuman primates across time and including behavior and social interactions, which anthropologists can use to make inferences about the social organization of hominids, the family that includes fossil and living humans. Two kinds of primates are particularly relevant: terrestrial monkeys and apes that live on the ground, rather than in trees, and the great apes, including chimpanzees and gorillas, which are most closely related to us. Phylogeny is genetic relationship between organisms which are commonly reflected through physical similarities. The primate order is divided into suborders, superfamiiles, families, tribes, genera, species, and subspecies; organisms within a taxon or subdivision are believed to share more recent genetic ancestors than with organisms in other taxa.
