Evanth midterm: primate features

Primate features include ….

  • Grasping extremities: opposable thumb, big toe, nail instead oc law

  • Brain size: large

  • Visual features: improved at cost of nose

    • Develop stereoscopic vision, which enables depth and three dimensional perception

  • Food: lots of fruit, also insects and leaves

  • Territory: mostly arboreal, live in trees

  • Relative to globe, living: equatorial

  • Primates life history pattern: extended life history

    • Gestational period: long

    • Period of infant dependency: long

    • K selected (probability for surviving to adulthood): high

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