Anthropology 1020E Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Olfactory Bulb, Biological Anthropology, Diurnality
2 Dec 2014
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Chapter 4 and 5 (pages 91-100 required; 101-116 optional) Labs on wednesday: group b foster to koggel (in 3102 social science centre on january 22) The lab printout will be provided there for you. Long gestation period: pregnancies, mammary glands, feeding our young through milk that we produce ourselves, different types of teeth, constant body temperature, capacity for learning and behavioral flexibility. Increased brain size: generally speaking, a fair ability to learn. Tendency towards erect posture: meaning sitting up straight. January 20, 2014: flexible shoulder joints in particular, same with our hips, hands and feet (ex. A horses" legs only move back a forth: hands and feet with a high degrees of prehensility, ability to hold something and move our joint all around, opposable thumb, nails instead of claws, few exceptions among prosimians. Types of locomotion: quadrupedal, all four limbs support the body, brachiation, body suspended beneath the hands, support alternated from one forelimb to the other.
