Week 2 Flashcards
clade grouping
Is a grouping of organisms that reflect a branch of the evolutionary tree, grouping based on relatedness.
shared derived traits and genetic evidence.
Grade grouping
Grouping that reflects levels of adaptation or overall similarity and not on actual evolutionary relationships.
-Appearance and lifestyle
sympatric primates
When two species share the same habitat by dividing living space into nocturnal and diurnal activity niches
niche partitioning
The Process in which competing species reduce competition by using the environment diffrently
Primate cultural transmission
Macaques a juvenile washed a muddy sweet potato in the stream and this new food processing technique first spread throughout the community of macaques., over 30 years.
-Capuchin learned how to open cashews with a rock it is thought over generations