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Prosimmians
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Lemurs and lories and tarsiers
These are small bodied and brained, usually nocturnal |
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Anthropoids
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Monkey, apes, hominids
Usually larger bodied |
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Primates...
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have opposable thumbs
Stereoscopic vision (both eyes in front causing overlapping and sharper depth perception) Precision grasping (because of the depth perception, and use of thumb) Most primates also have an opposable big toe |
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Jacques Monod
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Chance and Necessity - 1970
Talks about Animism and Vitalism "Old Covenant" is broken |
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Aristotle
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Animal heat is a vital force
Heart is source of heat Lungs are source of cooling |
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William Harvey
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FIgured out blood circulation
Agreed lungs cooled blood but said heart was just a pump and was only warm because of the blood |
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Ben Franklin
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Said animals "burn" food and therefore heat is in the gut
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Antoine Lavoisier
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Figured out respiration
Believed fire was in the lungs |
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Claude Bernard
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Figured out digestion
Said fire is in the cells (mitochondria) |
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Rene Descartes
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Animals are machine-like as are humans
Soul is in the pineal gland |
