Anthropology Critical Thinking

Anthropology Critical Thinking question:

. Use your completed Living Primate Chart (on next page) to answer the following questions.

A. Identify one geographic region that has numerous types of nonhuman primates living there today. What pri- mates live there?

B. Identify one geographic region that does not have any wild nonhuman primates living there today. Why might nonhuman primates be rare there?

C. Choose one strepsirhine primate and one haplorhine primate, and list at least two traits they have in com- mon. List at least two traits that distinguish them. What do these traits suggest about their evolutionary rela- tionship and classification?

D. Choose any two haplorhine primate groups, and list at least two traits they have in common. List at least two traits that distinguish them. What do these traits sucgest about their evolutionary relationship and classification?

E. Identify a diet that is found in more than one primate group. Which primates have this diet?

F identify a form of locomotion that is found in more than one primate group. Which primates have this locomotion?

G. With which nonhuman primate group do you have the most in common? Which traits do you share? What do hree traits surrest about your evolutionary relationships and classification