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Living Primates, Part 1

Living Primates, Part 1. General Characteristics . Categories: A. Locomotion B. Teeth and Diet C. Brain and Behavior D. Reproduction. General Characteristics: Locomotion. Locomotion _________________________. General Characteristics: Locomotion. A. Locomotion, continued

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Living Primates, Part 1

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  1. Living Primates, Part 1

  2. General Characteristics • Categories: • A. Locomotion • B. Teeth and Diet • C. Brain and Behavior • D. Reproduction

  3. General Characteristics: Locomotion • Locomotion • _________________________

  4. General Characteristics: Locomotion A. Locomotion, continued Hands and Feet: • Retention of ______ • _____________ • Opposable _______ • ___________ • ________________

  5. General Characteristics: Locomotion Fingernails (picture of a Orangutan)

  6. General Characteristics: Teeth and Diet B. Teeth and Diet • Lack of ________= __________________

  7. General Characteristics: Teeth and Diet • New World Monkeys • _____________ • Old World Monkeys/ Apes/Humans • ____________

  8. General Characteristics: Brain and Behavior C. Brain and Behavior • 1. More reliance on vision • ____________________ • ____________________ • _______________– stereoscopic, binocular vision • Related to _________________ • 2. Reduction in snout

  9. General Characteristics: Brain and Behavior C. Brain and Behavior __________________complexity of brain  especially the cerebral cortex

  10. General Characteristics: Brain and Behavior C. Brain and Behavior

  11. General Characteristics: Brain and Behavior Skull Characteristics • post-orbital bar • post-orbital closure

  12. General Characteristics: Brain and Behavior Skull Characteristics • post-orbital bar • post-orbital closure

  13. General Characteristics: Brain and Behavior • In many species, complex ________________ • Flexibility of behavior • Other points to note: • _____________________ • _____________________

  14. General Characteristics: Reproduction D. Reproduction Long gestation period Reduced # of offspring: ________________ Slow development: _________________ Extension of life span

  15. Primate Taxonomy

  16. Strepsirhini vs. Haplorhini

  17. Strepsirhini (Prosimians) • Strepsirhini • Most primitive of all primates • Note: Primitive = “least derived”, most similar to earlier mammalian ancestors • Ancestral Characteristics • ___________________________________ • ____________________________________ • Geographical Locations – Madagascar, Africa, Asia

  18. Haplorhini (Anthropoids) • In comparison to stepsirhinis, anthropoids share: • _________________________________

  19. Haplorhini (Anthropoids) • In comparison to stepsirhinis, anthropoids share: • ____________________________________

  20. Haplorhini (Anthropoids) • In comparison to stepsirhinis, anthropoids share: • ___________________________________

  21. Haplorhini (Anthropoids) • In comparison to stepsirhinis, anthropoids share: • reproductive/gestational/childrearing differences • ___________________of a grooming claw

  22. Haplorhini (Anthropoids) • Who are the haplorhines? • New World Monkeys • Old World Monkeys • Hominoids (apes and humans) Differences exist between the haplorhines

  23. New World Monkeys - Platyrrhines • Wide range in diet • All are arboreal • ________________ • Some with prehensile tails, some without prehensile tails • What do you think a prehensile tail is?

  24. Old World Monkeys – Catarrhines • Tails (not prehensile) • _________= Ischial Callosities • Rest in a ___________ • Some species have ______________ • What do you these are?

  25. Hominoids – Apes & Humans • Differ from monkeys in: • ____________(except gibbons & siamangs) • Absence of __________ • __________________ • Increased ____________ • Increased period of infant ________________________

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