ANTH 261 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Chordate, Hominidae, Night Monkey
19 Jan 2015
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Behaviour anything organisms do that involves an action in response to internal or external stimuli, it can be innate or learned. Behavioural ecology study of the evolution of behaviour, emphasizing the role of ecological factors, behaviours evolved through natural selection, social behaviours. Quantity and quality of different kinds of food. Social diversity great opportunity to do comparisons to test explanatory frameworks for primate (and human) behaviour. Social complexity unmatched among mammals: especially social relationships and behavioural dynamics. Humans are primates as well: we split from african apes 6-8 mya. Primates are located in the kingdom animalia, phylum chordata, class mammalia, order. Binocular vision (stereoscopic vision) different hypotheses for why. Visual predation hypothesis earliest primates were probably insectivores. Nails instead of claws, opposable thumbs, divergent big toe, dermatoglyphs (fingerprints) can. Primates: can be split into two suborbers: prosimians and anthropoids or strepsirhines and. Chemical communication via scent-marking common (olfactory communication) provide important information like characteristics.
