ANTH 1001 Chapter : ANTH 1001 Unit 2
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Different kinds of primates: lemuriforms, tarsiers, new world monkeys, old world monkeys, apes. Referring to the ability to grasp and manipulate things with hands and feet: primates have nails, not claws, primates have enhanced sensory nerves in the tips of their digits, flexible limb structure, (quadrupedalism, leaping, brachiation, bipedalism) Number of incisors in of maxilla and bottom is. Stands for number of incisors in of the mandible. Peacocks one is more colorful than the other: correlation between sexual dimorphism and competition in a group. Social structure: residence patterns, social behaviors/group makeup of different primate groups, size and demography of a group, demography is age and sex patterns, (1) solitary, rare, solitary species adult males will live their lives basically alone. Adult females live their lives alone except their offspring. Different segments of the group will split off and then they"ll all come back together: some kind of a dominance hierarchy.
