Exam 6: Biology in the Present: The Other Living Primates

Discuss the diversity of the dentition among primates.Pay particular attention to how form follows function with regard to dental morphology and diet.

Among all primates,what do humans have?

In class your professor shows you an MRI scan of a primate brain.The professor points out the relatively large size of the olfactory bulb beneath the frontal lobe.What does this suggest?

Discuss the primate parental investment in terms of natural selection.What are the most important aspects of primate parenting and what is their value to socialization?

In what way do primate females differ from many other mammals?

What is the special lower incisor that strepsirhines have called?

How do haplorhines differ from strepsirhines?

While observing primates at the zoo,you notice that the particular monkey you are watching uses its hands,feet,and tail to grasp branches while moving throughout the trees in its enclosure.What kind of monkey is this most likely?

What is the cladistic approach to primate classification based on?

Colobine primates are well adapted for eating leaves.What leaf-eating traits have evolved in these monkeys?

To what does phylogeny refer?

For which of the following statements did the reintroduction project of lemurs on St.Catherines provide more evidence?

You are reading a scientific paper regarding the relationships of the anatomical and behavioral characteristics of chimpanzees and their implications for early hominid evolution.You note that the authors refer to human,but not gorilla,ancestors as hominids.What other grouping of different primates would you expect the same researchers to use,if they are consistent in their approach?

Which of the following is the only place living lemurs are found?

Discuss the anatomical differences between strepsirhines and haplorhines.How do these anatomical differences relate to behavior and socialization among the respective primate groups?

In primates,low,rounded cusps indicate a diet of:

What are the three prominent tendencies of primates identified by the eminent British anatomist Sir Wilfrid E.Le Gros Clark (1895-1971)?

Why do primates have long growth and development periods?

What is the dental pattern of Old World higher primates?

What is arboreal adaptation?