ANT 350 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Metacarpal Bones, Phalanx Bone, Pisiform Bone
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The figures on the following pages in cartmill and. Smith will be useful: skull 105-107, 417-420; teeth 74, 108; postcranium 137-138, 141-143, 148. Great apes i expect you to recognize male and female chimpanzee skulls and know the taxonomic name pan troglodytes. In chimpanzees, male skulls aren"t much bigger than females, but male canines are noticeably larger. Thus there is not much sexual dimorphism in size, but there is canine sexual dimorphism. The same pattern applies for bonobos (pan paniscus). You will not have to identify bonobo skulls. Also know male and female gorillas gorilla gorilla. Here there is both size and canine sexual dimorphism. The same for male and female orangutans pongo pygmaeus. Remember in the adult mammalian dentition there are 4 types of teeth: incisors, canines, premolars and molars. In each half of the maxilla and mandible, both apes and humans have 2 incisors, 1 canine, 2 premolars and 3 molars.
