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Unique Traits of Primates

• Some new world monkeys have claws instead of nails.

• Various traits distinguish primates from other animals.

Grasping Adaptations

• Prehensile Hands and Feet: Primates possess grasping hands and opposable big toes that enhance their ability to manipulate objects and navigate their environment.

• Evolutionary Changes: Humans have evolved less opposability in feet due to bipedalism, impacting our grasping ability. However, young children may retain some of this ability.

Vision in Primates

• Highly Developed Visual Systems: Primates have evolved distinctive eye structures.

• Binocular Vision: The overlapping fields of vision from both eyes enable depth perception.

• Stereoscopic Vision: Each eye transmits signals to both brain hemispheres, aiding in three-dimensional vision, essential for activities like jumping between trees.

• Color Vision: All diurnal (day-active) primates possess color vision, which is absent in nocturnal primates, assisting in foraging and predator detection.