ANT 350 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Pelvic Floor, Upper Extremity Of Humerus, Shoulder Joint
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Widely distributed throughout tropical africa and asia, ranging into the temperate regions of. Distinctive teeth: front lower premolar (p3) is an elongated blade, dagger-like upper canines, well-developed canines in the males, bilophodant: molars that have four cusps with ridges that join the two front and two back cusps. Yields more shearing surface per tooth than in hominoids. There are two families of extant cercopithecoids: colobidae: leaf monkeys, specialized for eating leaves. Teeth with exaggerated shearing features for shredding leaves. Avoid eating ripe fruit because of leaf fermenting bacteria in their stomachs: cercopithecidae: guenon-baboon-macaque group. Fruit is a major part of their diet. Have cheek pouches to cram food into to protect. Fruit eaters that inhabit the canopy layers of tropical africa. Macaques: close relatives of baboons, extend from north africa to tropical asia and malaysia. Molar teeth typically have four or five low, rounded cusps, separated by a variable pattern of sulci (grooves).
