Evolution And History

56 CHAPTER 3 | Living Primates of the protected preserve. These gorillas spend close to 90 percent of their time outside the nat ...

Primate Taxonomy 57 The ancestral primates possessed biological character- istics that allowed them to adapt to life in the fore ...

58 CHAPTER 3 | Living Primates Suborder Infraorder Superfamily (family) Location I. Prosimii (lower primates) Lemuriformes Loris ...

Primate Taxonomy 59 gorillas, they differ as to whether they use the term hom- inid or hominin to describe the taxonomic groupin ...

60 CHAPTER 3 | Living Primates (humans included), on each side of each jaw, in front, are two straight-edged, chisel-like broad ...

Primate Characteristics 61 teeth (a 2-1-2-3 dental formula shared with the Old World monkeys and apes) are fewer than the teeth ...

62 CHAPTER 3 | Living Primates objects hanging in space, such as vines or branches. Mon- keys, apes, and humans achieved this th ...

Primate Characteristics 63 In addition to color vision, anthropoid primates pos- sess a unique structure called the fovea centra ...

64 CHAPTER 3 | Living Primates and transmit the appropriate response back down to the motor nerves. The enlarged, responsive cer ...

Primate Characteristics 65 Femur Humerus Radio-ulna Carpals Metacarpals Fibula Femur Humerus Radius Ulna Carpals Tibia Metacarpa ...

66 CHAPTER 3 | Living Primates order— especially the apes—are more differences of degree than differences of kind. Living Primat ...

Living Primates 67 Tarsiers Outwardly, tarsiers resemble lemurs and lorises. Molecu- lar evidence, however, indicates a closer r ...

68 CHAPTER 3 | Living Primates is that an emphasis on human origins in primatology meant that Old World species were favored by ...

Living Primates 69 Some Old World monkeys are known for their un- usual coloring, such as mandrills (pictured on page 62) with t ...

70 CHAPTER 3 | Living Primates hanging apparatus, though among apes only small, lithe gibbons and talented gymnasts swing from b ...

Primate Conservation 71 In the past, bonobos were thought to be the same spe- cies. When bonobos were recognized as a distinct s ...

72 CHAPTER 3 | Living Primates Globalscape AFRICA AUSTRALIA ANTARCTICA EUROPE SOUTH AMERICA NORTH AMERICA Austin,Texas Democrati ...

Primate Conservation 73 Because of their vulnerability, the conservation of pri- mates has become a matter of urgency. Tradition ...

74 CHAPTER 3 | Living Primates Anthropology Applied The Congo Heartland Project Under the leadership of Belgian prima- tologist ...

Suggested Readings 75 Questions for Reflection Does knowing more about the numerous similarities among the primates including h ...