ANT 301 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Stereopsis, Canine Tooth, Binocular Vision
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This provides for depth perception, or viewing the external environment in three dimensions. Stereoscopic vision is partly a function of structures in the brain: binocular vision: vision characterized by overlapping visual elds provided by forward-facing eyes. The rhinarium enhances an animal"s ability to smell: cercopithecines: the subfamily of old world monkeys that includes baboons, macaques, and guenons. Diet and teeth: lack of dietary specialization (omnivorous, generalized detention. Primate adaptations: environmental circumstances : climate, diet, habitat (woodland, grassland, forest, etc. Geographical distribution and habitats: with few exceptions, nonhuman primates are found in tropical or semitropical areas of the new and old. Primate classification: the living primates are commonly categorized into their respective subgroups, the primate order, which includes approx. Lemurs and lorises (suborder strepsirhini: most non-derived (primitive) living primates, more similar anatomically to their earliest mammalian ancestors than are the other primates.
