BIOLOGY 1M03 Lecture 16: Lecture 16 – Chapter 10 (HHE)
9 Feb 2017
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Hominoid (ape) diversification in time and space. Hominoid social systems; origins of violence in human societies. Locomotion in apes: evolutionary suspensory locomotion, knuckle walking and bipedalism. Anthropoids: the group of primates that includes new & old work moneys + apes. Gibbons occur only in southeast asia: 17 species. Orangutans: occur only in southeast asia: 2 species. Chimpanzees: distribution of the four subspecies in africa. Gorilla: distribution of the western and eastern gorilla in different parts of africa. Hominins: lineage given to humans after the divergence of humans from hominoids. Gibbons: are monogamous: tend to pair one bond for life, have parental care for the mother and the father by offspring. Orangutans: solitary, bi-maturation, occasional forced copulation, juvenile (smaller males) make a directional change to become a flanged male (these males have different behaviours protective of territory, juvenile male practice rape, flanged males" voluntary reproduction.
