Ch. 6 Flashcards
What is the dental formula for Old World Monkeys/Humans?
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Anthropoids differ from prosimians in all the following ways except:
Having more teeth
Among all primates humans have the:
Most elaborate connections between different regions of the brain
Old world monkeys have?
Bilophodont molars
Catarrhine dental formula
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Relative to other primates prosimian adaptation includes
An enlarged olfactory bulb and enlarged scent glands
Which is not true of primates
Primates inhabit every continent
Visual differences between primates and other animals include
Overlapping vision fields
One of the differences between humans dentition and primates is
Humans lack of diastema
Relative to body size primates brain size is
Larger among great apes than other primates
In class prof. Shows an mri of a prime brain. The primate has a very large olfactory gland this suggests?
Primates must be a prosimian
According to Wilfred Le Gros Clark what defines a primate?
The ability to eat a wide variety of food, investing time in offspring and adaptions to life in the trees
If a monkey uses its hands feet and tail to grasp branches what kind of monkey is it?
New World monkey
A strep strepsherine has a
Wet nose,snout , toothsome and grooming claw
While looking at the teeth of a primates skull you notice a large space what could this mean
The skull is from an old world monkey or ape
