The Study of
In The Wild
Primate Anatomical Characteristics
Human Characteristics
Elements of the Post-Cranial Skeleton
100
The holistic study of humanity.
What is anthropology?
100
The study of animal behavior.
What is ethology?
100
The characteristic that gives us the ability of depth perception.
What is binocular vision?
100
The ability to walk on two feet.
What is bipedality?
100
The long bone in the thigh.
What is the femur?
200
The study of human evolution from primate behavior and locomotion, fossil primates, and molecular data.
What is Physical Anthropology?
200
A primatologist that has studied chimpanzees in the Gombe Stream Preserve in Tanzania since 1960.
Who is Jane Goodall?
200
The ability to have a straight back when sitting.
What is upright posture?
200
Once thought to be a uniquely trait, other apes have been observed manufacturing and using these
What are tools?
200
This bone crosses over another to allow the wrist to twist.
What is the radius?
300
The study of human societies, the shared ideas that guide their behavior, and their development.
What is Cultural Anthropology?
300
An anthropologist turned conservationist, she has devoted her life to saving the primates in the wilds of Borneo.
Who is Birutė Galdikas?
300
This allows primates the ability to be flexible, and adaptable in their environment. It allows them to be acrobatic.
What is a generalized limb skeleton?
300
A level chewing field; teeth are same size.
What is nonhoning chewing?
300
From the Latin "not named," this is an essential element of locomotion.
What is the innominate?
400
The systematic recovery and scientific analysis of artifacts.
What is Archaeology?
400
A primatologist known for her studies of the mountain gorilla.
Who is Dian Fossey?
400
It allowed for binocular vision to develop. (or perhaps the other way around?)
What is an abbreviated snout?
400
A process first seen approximately 11,000 BP, where humans began to control the life cycles of plants and animals.
What is domestication?
400
The shin bone.
What is the Tibia?
500
The study of the human capacity for language, its characteristics, and its histories.
What is Linguistics?
500
An anthropologist known for studying the most biologically successful primates; she studied juvenile development.
Who is Margaret Mead?
500
These allow for increased friction; also allow for reading braille.
What are tactile pads?
500
The ability to communicate of anything (or anybody) in time or space.
What is displacement?
500
This is a bone that is important to upright posture and bipedalism. (might get in the way of brachiation, though)
What is the clavicle?
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