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ANTH- Test 2 (3)

  1. Study of diversity of organisms and "relationships" among them
    Systematics
  2. System for classifying organisms
    Taxonomy
  3. Formal listing of a species:

    How to abbreviate
    • Upper case first letter of genus name; all other letters are lower case,
    • Italicize or underline

    • Abbreviation of genus name is okay, but not the species name
    • (H. Sapien is OK)
    • (Homo Sap. is NOT OK)
  4. Linnaeus was a ____
    Modern biologist are _____
    • Creationist
    • Evolutionist
  5. Evolutionary lines of descent; ancestor-descendant relationships
    Polygeny
  6. These may be the most evolutionary successful primate
    Monkeys
  7. Suite traits that characterize primates:

    1) Grasping hands/ feet
    2) Nails not claws
    3) Increased reliance on vision (eyes on front of skull)
    4) Decreased reliance on smell (short snout)
    5) Postorbital bar
    6) Increase size of brain
    7) Long period of juvenile development
    Remember
  8. Arboreal Theory:

    Visual Predation Theory:
    AT: Early primates were adapting to life in the trees

    VPT: Early primates were predators of insects
  9. Polygyny 

    Noyau:
    Adults are dispersed and do not form a social group. Territory of one male overlaps the territories of several females
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ANTH- Test 2 (3)
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