Traits Flashcards
Primate traits (physical)
Front facing eyes
Color vision
Reduced snout size
Nails
Flexible hands
Opposable thumbs
Postorbital closure
No anticlinical vertebrae
Primate traits (physiology)
Big brain
Complex brain
Single birth
Longer period of maturation
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Prosimians
Strepsirrhines
Tasiers
Strepsirrhines
Wet nose
Lemurs and Lorises
Tarsiers
Dry nose
Prosimian physical identifiers
Foward facing incisors
Canines on mandible
Prosimian dental formula
2.1.3.3
New World Monkey physical identifiers
Broad, flat nose
Long, narrow skull
Prehensile tail
Small/medium size
New World Monkey dental formula
2.1.3.3
Marmoset New World Monkey dental formula
2.1.3.2
Old World Monkeys
Catarrhines
Ceropithecines
Colobines
Catarrhine OLD WORLD MONKEY PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS
Narrow, downward-facing nostrils
Medium size
Apes are…
Catarrhines! (old world monkeys)
Apes are…
Catarrhines! (old world monkeys)
Ape families
Hylobatids
Hominids
Ape families
Hylobatids
Hominids
Hylobatids
Gibbons
Siamangs
Hominids
Great apes
Ape physical characteristics
Large
No tail
Lesser apes characteristics
Smaller body
Long arms
Locomotion of lesser apes
Branchiation
What is branchiation
Swinging from branch to branch
OLD WORLD MONKEYS/APES DENTAL FORMULA
2.1.2.3
Great apes characteristics
Large body
Long lifespan
Types of apes
Orangutan 🦧
Gorilla 🦍
Chimp
Bonobo
Human