ANTH - 2nd Midterm

Most primates have lost this feature of the nose because of greater reliance on enhanced vision, leading to a greatly reduced sense of smell.

Rhinarium

Among all primates, this species have the largest brain relative to body size.

Humans

This type of adaptation involves the use of material culture or learned practices.

Cultural adaptation

This form of locomotion involves the use of forelimbs to move from tree limb to tree limb

Brachiation

The dental formula of a single quadrant for higher primates and humans

is typically 2-1-2-3, indicating the number of incisors, canines, premolars, and molars.

This male primate strategy is enhance the new male’s reproductive fitness and prepare a female primate to be receptive to the new male by killing a juvenile.

Infanticide

This primate has the least geographic diversity.

Lemurs

This encompasses a variety of reversible adjustments that can occur throughout an individual lifetime

Acclimatization

Which is not a stage of development in humans: Adult, Juvenile, Prenatal, Intrauterine

Intrauterine is not a stage of development in humans; it refers to the environment within the uterus.

He argued that health differneces between people of European decent and people of African descent in the US is due to social inequality.

W.E.B. Du Bois

Strepsirrhine characteristics do not include:

A) Their sense of smell is more developed.

B) Many of them have claws instead of nails.

B) They have smalles brains.

D) Their diet is more generalized.

D) Their diet is more specialized.

Kind selection refers to:

A) Nonaltruistic behavior toward other members of the kid group.

B) Altruistic behavior that increases the donor’s inclusive fitness

C) Altruistic behavior that promotes kin-like bonding among nonkid.

D) Behavior that increases only the donor’s fitness

B) Altruistic behavior that increases the donor’s inclusive fitness.

1.- Polygynous refers to:

2.- Polyandrous refers to:

3.- Monogamous refers to:

1.- A mating system in which one male mates with multiple females. (Most widely practiced)

2.- A mating system in which one female mates with multiple males. (only some New World monkeys)

3.-A mating system in which one male mates with one female.

Lemurs, lorises and galgos are within what suborder of primates?

Strepsirrhini

The rate at which an organim’s body, while at rest, expends energy to maintain basic bodily funtions; measured by the amount of heat.

Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR)

This anatomical feature is present in nonhuman primates but not humans because of their shift to bipedalism.

Opposable big toe - tail

A gradual change in a phentypic characteristic from one geographic population to the next.

A cline

Grooming involves:

A) The development of alliances between females only.

B) The development of alliances between males only.

C) Bonding between individuals of the same rank, picking through the skin and hair of another individual.

D) Bonding between two members of a social group, calming or appeasing the primate being groomed if it has a higher dominance.

D) Bonding between two members of a social group, calming or appeasing the primate being groomed if it has a higher dominance.

Anthropoids are ——,—— and ——

monkeys, apes, and humans

The person who developed the binomial nomenclature system (giving each plant and animal a higher-level genus names and a lower-level species name)

is Carl Linnaeus.

This adaptation allows some primates species to live in trees.

Arboreal

The founder of American Anthropology he challenged the taxonomic approach to human biological variatio.

Franz Boas

Male primates compete for —-; female primates compete for —

mates; resources.

This primates species is the most geographic diverse.

Humans

This rule says that mammals in cold environments will have shorter limbs and those in hot enviroments will have longer limbs

Allen’s Rule

What are four key arboreal adaptations of primates?

1.- Opposable thumbs (versatile skeletal structure)

2.- Nails (Enhanced touch)

3.- Dermal Ridges

4.- Convergence of their eyes (Enhanced vision)

The study of waht happens to the reamins of an animal from the time of its death to the time of discovery

is known as taphonomy.

Describes when part or all of the face sticks out more than normal

Prognathism