ANT 230 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Diastema, Common Chimpanzee, Homo Sapiens
12 Aug 2016
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Laterally placed eyes (sides of skull bad depth perception) Shorter gestation and maturation period (grow to adulthood faster) Lower incisor and canine are long and angles outward (good for grooming other animals and themselves) Fleshy fad on the nose that is moist. On madagascar and few other islands and extinct everywhere else. Larger lemurs are diurnal and eat fruits and leaves etc. Some eat insects, fruit, leaves, gums etc. (varying diets) Females form social groups where they stick together for hunting and sleeping at night. Small nocturnal primates found on the islands of southeast asia. Have elongated tarsals that allow them to propel themselves up. Social patters consists of mated pair and their offspring. Bony plate at the back of the eye socket. Represent about 85 percent of all primate species. Platyrrhine nose (slits for nostrils, whereas humans are rounded) 70 species (spend time in the trees mostly) Subfamily of old world monkeys that includes baboons, macaques and guenons.
