ANTH 1001 Chapter : Anthropology 1001 Primates
Document Summary
Apes: name change in primate suborders: traditional: prosimii /anthropoidea. Proposed: strepsirrhini/haplorrhini; move tarsiers: reclassification of the great apes (family names): traditional: pongiade/hominidae. Descriptive researchers going out into the field and describing everything they saw. Jane goodall (zoologists) went out into the jungle with little training in primates, and entire goal was to study chimpanzees; it took 18 months before they stopped running away from her. Dian fossey a primatologist, she studied mountain gorillas. She set up camp for years in the jungle. She brought the idea of conversation about preserving the gorillas. Behavioral ecology the study of the relationship between the environment and behavior. Sociobiology the study of the relationship between genes and behavior. Prehensile ability to grab or manipulate. Brachiation body is hanging on the forelimbs; arm swinging. Bipedalism walking around on two limbs. First: incisors, second: canines, third: premolars, fourth: molar. We have few offspring at a time and are born unable to care for themselves.
