Anthropology 101 Anthropology 101 Tuesday‚ August 23‚ 2011 9/27/11 9:46 AM Monogamy: one man‚ one woman Polygyny: one man‚ two or more wives Polyandry: one woman two or more husbands Anthropology: the study of the biological and cultural evolution and diversity of human beings‚ past and present. Is a comparative discipline‚ which seeks to understand what makes people different and what they all have in common. Anthropologists: concerned with the description and explanation of reality Formulate
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Woman are seeking men who have the ability to provide for both her and her offspring. Females are more dedicated to parenting‚ so they are more cautious when it comes to courtship and sexual relationships. 2. Do any of these differences apply to primates?
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proponents of debate over the evolution of morality. He is a famous primatologist and ethologist who bases his opinions partially on Darwinism and partially on his own personal viewing of primates. According to De Waal‚ morality comes from two separate sources. De Waal’s theory of morality rests upon the observations of primate behaviors of empathy and sympathy‚ the selection of kin‚ reciprocal altruism with regards to fairness‚ and the simple ability to get along‚ in conjunction with the idea that one part
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Answer Sheet: How are microscopic protest and fungi classified? (2 pages) | |Scientific Name |Classification |Habitat |Nutrition |Locomotion | | | |Group | | | | |Organism B |Penicillium |Fungus |Citrus fruit |Organic matter
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though the major developmental tasks‚ which include locomotion‚ language and communication skills‚ fantasy play‚ and self-control. These tasks contribute to the child’s social group in which they live. With every stage comes a psychosocial crisis that arises as the person experiences some conflict between their skills and the expectations of their society. Locomotion plays the greatest role in the toddler’s psychosocial development. Locomotion is how the toddler experiences new ways of interacting
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how South America at that time was quite isolated after it’s separation from Africa during the Mesozoic era and the earliest fossil record indicate the first primates were not found there until the late Oligocene ephoch‚ this left many to theorize about how they may have reached such a secluded land. One theory by scientist is that the primates rafted from Africa by make-shift vegetation rafts or accidental rafting across the Atlantic Ocean rafting from one island to the next that the ocean current
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order to be maintained. Evolving a large brain must mean that brain size offered an important fitness advantage; otherwise it’s hard to see why it would happen. There are two main competing sets of hypotheses about why or how the larger brain of primates evolved: through ecological demands or social complexity and competition. The currently favored model is the
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about‚ non-human primates having the intellectual capacity for language‚ remains highly contested. Whether primates can or cannot use language is one of the most
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The Two Suborders of Primates. 1. Prosimii Rely more on smell than other primates have mobile ears (like a cat) whiskers snouts fixed facial expressions Many of these species are nocturnal and arboreal. (less emphasis on vision) 2 major groups: Loris-like forms (Loris and Galagos (bush babies – see below)) eat fruit and bugs Mostly live in southeast Asia. Lemur-like forms. Lemurs all from Madagascar. An ancestral population underwent adaptive radiation (geographically
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The chimp‚ bonobo‚ and human mate choice have similarities as well as differences. In the article‚ Sex at Dawn the authors explain that “though bonobos surpass even chimps in the frequency of their sexual behavior‚ females of both species engage in multiple mating sessions in quick succession with different males. Among chimpanzees‚ ovulating females mate‚ on average‚ from six to eight times per day‚ and they are often eager to respond to the mating invitations of any and all males in the group”
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