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| Shared geographic range of species, different phenotypic traits |
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| Geographically seperated subset of species (term varies within question) |
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| the study of sizes and measures of the human body |
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| Genetic varation within and between groups of organisms |
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| gradual change in visible characteristic from one population to the next |
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| When something is no longer polymorphic (having more than one form) |
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| Under what circumstances will alleles vary? |
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| If there are at least two forms, the allele frequency is greater than one percent, and the trait is polymorphic |
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| caps at the ends of bones fuse together at certain ages thus giving us something to gauge how old a person was when they died. Cartilage will califie too. |
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| What sorts of bone changes does one undergo through age? (There are two mentioned in slides) |
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| Loss of trabecular bone and osteon cones in cortical bone increase with age. |
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| What bone is measured to give a height? |
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| Femur length. 2.38 (femur length) = 61.41 = height + - 3.27 |
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no placenta
fetus crawls from reproductive tract to pouch and nipple
(marsupials) |
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Platypus and enchida
Born from eggs, but nurse |
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| an organisms use of an atomical feature in a way unrelated to the features original function |
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| Has a fully enclosed eye orbit |
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| the gibbon and most other primates |
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| has a postorbital bar line in the back of he eye orbit but does not fully enclose it |
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| Visual Predation Hypothesis |
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| suggested that arboreal predatory behavior accounted for the grasping hands and feet, and particularly the increased visual overlap and brain size |
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| enhanced visual motor systems and cognitive elboration is from arboreal life |
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| Generalized Dental formula of primates |
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| 2 incisors, 1 canine 2-3 premolars, 3 molars |
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| an animals brain size is directly related to its intelligence level |
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| extended period of dependence allowing for primates to have more culture |
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| Three characteristics of prosimians |
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| Primitive - mobile ears, higher reliance on smell (wet noses), smaller brains |
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| Differences in the uterus' of Prosimians and Anthropoids |
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Prosimian - uterus bicornis (two horns)
Anthropoid - Uterus simplex (simple) |
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| Three characteristics of prosimians, loridea |
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| nocturnal, aboreal, largely solitary |
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| Three characteristics of prosimians, tasiers |
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| arboreal, nocturnal, carnivorous |
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| Platyrrhines have how many premolars? Catarrhines have how many premolars? |
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Platyrrhines (new world) 3
Catarrhines (old world) 2 |
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| In terms of ectotympanic bone...platyrrhines have a --- and catarrhines have a --- |
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| Platyrrhines have a ring, Catarrhines have a tube |
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| Characteristics of Callitrchidaes (aka Tamarins and Marmosets) |
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| small body, polyandry, typically twins, a diet of tree exudates, fruits, and insects, digital claws |
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| an enamel ridge connecting cusps on a tooths surface |
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| refers to lower molars, in old world monkeys, that have two ridges |
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| Hominoids' pattern of lower molar cusps |
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| Which critter has a tooth comb |
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| The higher primates monkeys old world and new world, apes, and humans. |
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| A tail that acts as a kind of hand for support in trees, common in New World Monkeys |
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Species
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| Thats the way it works. This will end soon. |
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| Head width / head length * 100 |
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| a trait which is shared (cladidistic) with a common ancestor |
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| first two are winged incisors with shovel shape pattern of teething. Often found in Native Americans |
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| the other type of teeth pattern ided |
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| Evolutionary tree reflecting relatedness and divergence of taxonomic groups |
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| the process of lactase breaking down to simple sugars in young mammals, lactace decreases with age |
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| Lactace production is the dominant allele, homozygotes and heterozygotes can digest lactose |
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| Lactoce tolerance f ound in populations with long history of diary |
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| Human Leukocyte Antigen (HLA) |
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| diverse genetic system of linked loci on chromosome 6, controls immune response. Thus at low levels in a populations processors of the alleles have a greater resistence to infectious diseases. At high levels in a population diseases encounter alleles enough to evolve counter strategies |
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| Oxygen starvation. When this happens at high altitude it leads to increased heart rate and increased breathing |
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