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50 Cards in this Set
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What era contained the first primates that actually looked like primates
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Pliocene
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Matying system where femailes are in separate territories and the male wanders
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Noyau
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Most abundate and diverse Hominins in
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Miocene
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Why do some female primates live in groups
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To reduce predation
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Locomotion of chimps and gorillas
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Knuckle walking
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Primate showing cultural behavior
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taught and transmitted over generations
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all apes share this in common
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No tails
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Jump between verical supports
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vertical clingers or leapers
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Usually noctornal
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Tarsiers
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relative dating is based on
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Index fossils in limited ranges
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Fruit is important in providing
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Energy
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locomotion of savanna baboons
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terrestrial quadruped
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lactational annorhea
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female fails to ovulate while the infant nurses
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Gave rise to anthropoids
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eosimias
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Characteristic of primates
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relatively large brains
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sivapithecine
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closest to the orangutan
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richest localities for oligocenes
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fayum depression, egypt
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orangutans are found in
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southeast asia
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oldest epoch
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paleocene
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earliest primate like mammals sister group
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plesiadapiformes
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found in madagascar
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lemurs
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radiometric method not for fossils older than 100,000 years old
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carbon 14
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not in anthropedia
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lorises
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plattyrhines originated in
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africa
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females defend aggressively
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resources are distributed in patchs or clumps
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closest relative of cercopithecoids
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homoinoids
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trace fossils
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burrows and footprints
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orangutan locomotions
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suspensory climbing
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multi level sociery
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small single male, mulf femal groups together in bonds
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closely resemble tarsiers
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omomyids
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Phylogeny
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Family tree showing how we think animals are related
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Most fundemental social unit
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Mother offspring
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Fundemental determinant of number of males
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Number of females
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Females counteract with infantcide by
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mating with 1+ male(s)
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Adapids closely resemble
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lemurs
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catopithecus is what oligopithecoid
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Early cattarhines
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largest primate
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Gigantopithecus
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Closest primate to humans
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Chimps
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Phenetic Classification
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Animals together based on similarity
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Coalitionary agression
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two males overthrow higher ranked male
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South American Monkeys
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Plattyrrhines
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Why male commits infanticide
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to sire more offspring
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Classifying animals into groups
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taxonomy
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Closest relative to lemurs
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galagoes
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famous for promiscuous mating
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Bonobos
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Best source of protein
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insects
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Female dominance hierarchy difference
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based on kinship
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Tooth come is used for
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fur grooming
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ischial callosities of OWM used for
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sitting on
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Polyandry
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One female lots of males
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