PSYCH 450 Study Guide - Prehensile Tail, Simian, Maternal Sensitivity
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Nomenclature: super-family = ea, family = ae, subfamily = nae. Old world monkeys: do not have secondary olfactory system less scent marking than. New world monkeys: 35 million years since any monkey in the new world and old world. Came to breath : old world monkeys stayed in africa and southeast asia new world split off and went to south america and southeast asia, northernmost monkey japanese maquaque. Order primates: suborder prosimii, suborder anthropoidea, all monkeys are in the suborder anthropoidea. Cercopithecinae (macaques, baboons, guenons, vervets) = omnivores. Taxonomy by nose: new world monkeys have nostrils that point out wide toward the side, old world monkeys have a more of a downward pointed nose. Infanticide by adult males bachelor band takeover of single-male. + female harem group, bachelor band then mates with females. Monkeys originated in africa about 45 million years ago: one line went off to become the leaf eaters the langurs and.
