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