Assignment Help-Examine Skeletal Traits That Distinguish Major Primate Clades
examine the skeletal traits that distinguish the major primate clades.
What defines a primate?
Answer the following questions using the above dental formulae and the written/illustrated materials provided:
Which specimen is not a primate? How do you know?
Which specimen is a New World monkey? How do you know?
Does specimen “E” have the bilophodont or Y-5 molar cusp pattern? Based on this cusp morphology and its dental formula, what primate group does this specimen belong to?
Which mandible is human? What traits did you use to make your identification?
Which specimens are apes? How do you know? (Hint: you are an ape)
