Dating and Fossils
The principle that the lower the stratum (layer) the older its age; the oldest layers are at the bottom, and the youngest layers at the top
What is The Law of Superposition?
Quadrupedal locomotion where an animal walks on its forelimbs with its fingers partially flexed
What is knuckle walking?
Male Primates compete for_____; female primates compete for _______.
What are Mates; Resources?
This primate species is the most geographic diverse and has the largest brain size of all the primates.
What are humans?
This type of adaptation allows some primate species to live in trees
What is arboreal adaptation?
_____ ______ provides a specific point in time ( and _______ ________ provides chronological sequence ( can only tell you something is older or younger than something else)
What is Absolute Dating and Relative Dating?
Anthropoids are ______,_______, and _______.
What are Apes, monkeys, and humans?
Grooming involves:
a. the development of alliances between females only.
b. the development of alliances between males only.
c. bonding between individuals of the same rank, picking through the skin and hair of another individual.
d. bonding between two members of a social group, calming or appeasing the primate being groomed if it has a higher dominance.
What is d. bonding between two members of a social group, calming or appeasing the primate being groomed if it has a higher dominance.
This primate has the least geographic diversity
What are lemurs?
This anatomical feature is present in nonhuman primates but not humans because of their shift to bipedalism
What is Opposable big toe?
This absolute dating method uses the cross-section of trees to date more recent bioarchaeological remains, not useful in dating fossils.
What is Dendrochronology?
2/1/2/3 is an example of what?
What is Dental formula?
This male primate strategy is enhance the new male’s reproductive fitness and prepare a female primate to be receptive to the new male by killing a juvenile
What is Infaticide?
I have a prehensile tail, a toothcomb, and rhnarium.
Am I a:
A. Hominoid
B. Haplorhine
C. Strepsirhines
What is C. Strepsirhines?
The dental formula of a single quadrant for higher primates and humans
What is 2/1/2/3?
Which is not an example of relative dating:
A. Flourine dating
B. Cultural dating
C. Radiopotassium dating
D. Geological events
What is C. Radiopotassium dating?
Strepsirrhine characteristics do not include:
a. Their sense of smell is more developed
b. Many of them have claws instead of nails
c. They have smaller brains
d. Their diet is more generalized
What is d. Their diet is more generalized?
Kin selection refers to:
a. non-altruistic behavior toward other members of the kin group.
b. altruistic behavior that increases the donor’s inclusive fitness.
c. altruistic behavior that promotes kin-like bonding among non-kin.
d. behavior that increases only the donor’s fitness.
What is b. altruistic behavior that increases the donor’s inclusive fitness?
I am a lesser ape, with long arms for brachiation, males and females have variable coat color, but we lack sexual dimorphism. What primate species am I?
What are Gibbons?
This form of locomotion involves the use of forelimbs to move from tree limb to tree limb
What is Brachiation?
This dating technique analyzes fluorine absorption in bones
The deeper the bone, the higher its fluorine concentration, the older it is.
What is Flourine dating (note this is a relative dating technique)?
Dermal ridges and fingernails in primates is related to ________ _______.
What is Enhanced Touch?
Polygynous refers to ___; polyandrous refers to ___; monogamous refers to ___.
What are:
1 One male has more than one female partner (most widely practiced);
2 one female has more than one male partner (only some New World monkeys);
3 one female with one male
Lemurs, lorises and galgos are within what suborder f primates?
What is strepsirrhini?
Most primates have lost this feature of the nose because of greater reliance on enhanced vision which led to greatly reduced sense of smell
What is Rhinarium?