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Lab 8 Flashcards

1
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Primate Classification

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p. 157

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Slow Quadrupedal Climbing

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Lorises of South Asia, Prosimians
Characterized by robust musculature and limb bones; mobile ankle, wrist, and hip joints

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Vertical Clinging and Leaping

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Ex: Bushbaby
Prosimian locomotion

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Quadrupedal Walking, Running, and Leaping

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Ex: Lemur

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Brachiation

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Ex: Gibbons
Swing on branches

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Knuckle-Walking

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Ex: African Apes (chimps, gorillas)
Too large to brachiate habitually

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Slow Quadrumanual Climbing

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Ex: Orangutan

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Bipedalism

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Ankles fused to promote stature, slight pronation and suppination
Arch in foot
Prehensile big toe
Ex: Humans

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Organization of Primates
Step 1

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Prosimians have post orbital bar, unfused mandible
Anthropoids have closed bar, and fused mandible

(Suborder)

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Organization of Primates
Step 2

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Platy 2-1-3-3 Dental Formula
Caty 2-1-2-3 Dental Formula

(Infraorder)

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Organization of Primates
Step 3

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Cercopithecoidia have X-4 tooth Cusps
Hominoidia have Y-5 tooth Cusps

(Subfamily)

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Ape vs. Monkey Locomotion

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  1. Apes intermemberal index over 100, meaning longer arms
  2. Monkeys have a tail, as apes do not
  3. Monkey 4 cusp, while apes have 5
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Insect-eating primate molar shape

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High, pointed cusps, better to puncure the body

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Foliage-eating primate molar shape

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high shearing crests or blades, enabling the breaking up of leaves

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Fruit-eating primate molar shape

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low, rounded cusps for crushing fruit

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Dense-eating primate molar shape

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low, rounded cusps with thick enamel. Generally have larger mandibles

17
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Diastama

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the gap that receives the canine of the opposite jaw

18
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Parabolic Dental Arcade

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in a U shape
Shared in humans

19
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Divergent Dental Arcade

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V shaped dental arcade
shared in prosimians

20
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Parallel Dental Arcade

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Left and ride side parallel,
shared by all anthropoids

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