PSYCH 450- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 29 pages long!)
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1/23/2017 introduction and course requirements: exam question: (cid:449)hi(cid:272)h pri(cid:373)ates do(cid:374)"t ha(cid:448)e a tail: apes, (cid:272)hi(cid:373)pa(cid:374)zee, gi(cid:271)(cid:271)o(cid:374)s, orangutans, gorillas tells us that have common ancestor. Intelligence: chimps can count, have facial recognition, use computers to communicate with apes, primate conservation. 1/25/17 taxonomy and distribution of the living primates: earth 4. 5 billion years old, big cooling event: 600 million years ago. Anthropoids: carpolestes simpsoni, cartoon based on fossils, had eyes moving forward, teeth reducing in #, bug eater, early prosimians, 70 million years ago. Ida: 47 million year old transitional prosimian/anthropoid fossil from germany, distribution, ancestral prosimians: na and europe, living primates today, south america (monkeys, africa and asia (prosimians, monkeys, and apes) Largest distribution of any primate in the world. Japanese macaque snow monkey: colobus monkeys and langurs, guenons and talapoin, blue monkey. No: monogamous, orangutan, not monogamous, solitary, gorilla gorilla. Lowland: mountain, male 400 lbs (largest living primates, chimpanzee and bonobo.
