Primates Flashcards
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Primates
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- Most diverse order in mammals
- Expanding fossil records
- One of the most interesting, problematic and contentious orders in mammalogy
- Non-human primtes typically in tropical environments
2
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Primates are a mosaic of traits of what 2 kinds?
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- Ancestral (symplesiomorphic) placental traits
- Derived (synapomorphic) traits: arboreal adaptions
3
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Charcteristics
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- Manual and locomotor dexterity
- Emphasis on vision
- Expansion on cerebral cortex
- Eye-hand coordination
- Long gestation period w/ body size
- Small litter w/ body size
- Prolonged infancy
- Sociality and communication
- Unspecailized denition
4
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What are the 2 Suborders?
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- Dermoptera
- Euprimtaes
5
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Suborder: Dermoptera
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-Colugos (aka flying lemurs)
6
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Suborder: Euprimates
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-Have 2 Infraorders of: Strepsirrhini and Haplorrhini
7
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Infraorder: Strepsirrhini
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-Lemurs, lorises, and galagos
8
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Infraorder: Haplorrhini
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-Tarsiers, New World and Old World Monkeys, Great Apes
9
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Old World Monkeys
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-Narrow nose and palate
-Bilophodont molars
-Long trunks
Have tails
10
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Apes
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- Broad nose and palate
- Larger brain
- Simple molars
- Short trunks
- No tails
- Long arms
