Reference no: EM133471964

Part 1.

1. How are classifications used to simplify complex data?

2. What is a dichotomous model of classification?

3. How would you write a definition of the primates?

4. When classifying a species within the order Primates, why is the use of nose type more useful than the fact that primates are covered with hair?

5. What are the major differences between the strepsirrhines and the haplorrhines?

6. What are the major differences between the New World monkeys and the Old World monievs?

7. Why is a chimpanzee not a monkey?

Part 2.

1. What features distinguish the primate skull from other mammalian skulls?

2. What features distinguish the (a) strepsirrhine skull and the (b) haplorrhine skull?

3. What are some of the strepsirrhine and haplorrhine features found in the tarsier skull?

4. What features distinguish the New World monkey skull from that of an Old World monkey?

5. What features distinguish the ape skull from that of a (a) monkey and from a (b) human?

6. What is the function of a sagittal crest? Which species have one and why?

7. What is the function of the nuchal crest? Which species have.