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I) Generalized Skeleton
II) Prehensile grasping hands
III) Emphasis on Visual System
IV) Reduction of Olfactory
V) Bigger Brian and complexity
vI) Longer gestation, Juvenile, Lifespan |
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Definition
a) Retains Clavicle
b) 2 bones on lower arm and leg |
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Term
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Definition
a) five fingered hands and feet
b) flexible digits
c)divergentt thumb and hallux
d) pwer grip
e) Sensory pads for touch
f) Nails not claws
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Term
| Emphasis on Visual System |
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Definition
a)increase sense of vison
b) large visusal cortex
c) forward position of eyes
d) stereoscopic vision (depth perception)
e) color vision
f)bony protection around eyes
g) post orbital bar and plate
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Term
| Reduction of Olfactory System |
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Definition
a) less important small
b) reduction in length of snout
c) less teeth
d) generalized heterodont dentrition
e)no special diet |
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Term
| V)Brain Size INcrease and Complexity |
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Definition
a) brain is bigger
b) more complex
c) easier to learn |
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Term
VI) Longer Gestation, Juvenile, Lifespan
Primate Trait |
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Definition
a) INcreased parental investment
b) increased dependence on learned behavior
c) primates learn how to mother |
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Term
| Relative Dating Techniques |
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Definition
| Using Stratigraphy to estimate age in realtion to something else |
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Term
| Calibrated Relative Dating Techniques |
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Definition
Use geological processes that can be calibratefd to a chronological age if certain condtions are known
ex. Paleomagnetism |
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Term
| Chronometric Dating Techniques |
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Definition
| Uses a clock to measure age in years before present |
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Term
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Definition
Radiocarbon
Potassium-Argon
Argon/Argon
Fission Track
Cosmogenic Radionuclides
U Series
Electron Tap
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Term
| Principles of Stratigraphy |
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Definition
Superposition-older layers are covered by newer layers
Faunal Succession-Once a species goes extinct it does not reappear again |
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Definition
| An lineage splitting event that produces 2 or more different species |
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Term
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Definition
a) produced by geographic isolation
b) this is produced by cladogenesis
c)Interruption of Gene Flow (reproduction) |
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Term
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Definition
a) 2 populations have divergesd without geographic isolation
b) partial reproductive isolation
c) hybridf zone that could potentially create 3rd species
d) New Niche entered
SOmething happened that they had to go outside their normal habitat
Over time they develop differently to adapt to their new environment |
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Term
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Definition
a) utlization of different ecological systems in same geographic range
b) no geographic isolation
c)change in food and habitat (resources) |
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Term
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Definition
a) Time is the isolater
b) When one species evolves into another over time
All speciaiton mode is Phletic Gradualism
Slow and steady |
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Term
Callitrichidae
Platyirrhini (Family) |
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Definition
1) Dental Formula 2:1:3:2
3 Premolars
2) Modified Claws on all digits
3) Smallest of NW Monkeys
4) Top of Canopies
5) Arboreal Quadroped w/Leaping adaptation
6) Monogomous /or Polyandrous
7) Twin Birthss
8) Males very involved with parenting |
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