ANTHROP 3304- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 40 pages long!)
16 Feb 2018
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Lecture: january 12 & january 17: distribution, roughly 600 species, found on 5 of the 7 continents (not antarctica or australia, mostly south america, asia and africa, mostly in tropical rainforests in trees = tropical, arboreal radiation. Habitats: primary forest (most preferred, tall, old growth trees, secondary forest, fast growing, short plants that grow when primary forest has been cut down, denser, gallery forest, grows along rivers, savannah, swamp forest, provides safety. Dental formulas: catarrhines = 2. 1. 2. 3, platyrrhines = 2. 1. 3. 3. Dietary categories: frugivores, folivores, insectivores, gumivores, granivores, carnivores, omnivores, dental correlates with diet, wide incisors, flat molars = frugivore, narrow incisors, high shearing crest molars = folivore, diet and cranial capacity, frugivores = higher cranial capacity. Anthro 3304: infanticide, female choice (intersexual selection, reason why males typically colorful, not always physical = behaviors such a likability and caring. Lecture: january 19: what do fossils do, temporal framework, show primitive and intermediate forms, record of past life.
