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Platyrrhini
NWM
Catrrhini
OWM
Tarsiiformes
infraorder
SE asia
Nocturnal
Vertical clinging and leaping
Anthropoidea
infraoder to Haplorhini
monkeys, apes, humans
catarrhini
OW monkeys and apes
hylobatidae
lesser apes
bilophodont pattern
4 cusps
diastema
space or gap between canine and adjacent tooth
honing
when the canine is sharpened in diastema
calvarium
skull minus lower jaw
mandible
lower jaw
lemurs and lorises- 2 jaws
tarsiers, apes and monkeys- 1
postcranium
everything but skeleton
axial skeleton
everything attached to the backbone
appendicular skeleton
everything not touching the backbone
who uses quadropedalism
orangs, gorillas, chimp
pan troglodytes
chimps
east africa
pan paniscus
Bonobo
Zaire
polyandry
females with more than 1 male
polygyny
male has more than 1 female
Arboreal Hypothesis
G Elliot Smith
primate adaptions evolved from life in trees
Visual Predation Hypothesis
Matt Cartmill
binocular vision so they could accurately judge how far away an insect is
Angiosperm Hypothesis
RW Sussman
adaptive radiation in flowers triggers solution change in primates
taphonomy
how things are fossilized
biostratigraphy
relative dating