Chapter 5 Review

1. What order do humans belong to on the taxonomic chart?

2. Primates belong to what class on the taxonomic chart?
3. What does it mean to live an arboreal life style?
4. What bone allows non-human primates to brachiate?
5. What does it mean to be an omnivore?
6. What use is an opposable thumb?
7. What is stereoscopic vision?
8. As a general rule, animals with larger brains mature slowly or quickly? Why?
9. Are humans diurnal or nocturnal?
10. What are the two suborders of primates?
11. What are three groups of prosimians listed in your text?
12. Where do you find lemurs geographically?
13. How do lemurs locomote?
14. Where do you find lorises?
15. Are members of the loris group nocturnal or diurnal? Terrestrial or arboreal?
16. What are the two subfamilies of the loris group?
17. Where do you find tarsiers?
18. What does their diet consist of?
19. Why is the classification of the tarsier controversial?
20. What primates belong to the suborder anthropoid?
21. What are the two main groups of anthropoids?
22. Where are New World monkeys found?

23. What are the two main families of New World monkeys?
24. What unique anatomical features define New World monkeys?
25. Where are Old World monkeys found?
26. What is the dental pattern of Old World monkeys?
27. What are the two major subfamilies of Old World monkeys?
28. What defines a colobine monkey?
29. What defines a cercopthecine monkey?
30. Who belongs to the hominoid group?
31. What primates are included in the hylobates family? Pongid family? Hominid
family?
32. What physical features are unique to the hominoid group?
33. Looking at the illustration on page 99, what are the key differences in dentition
between Old World and New World monkeys?
34. What is a Y-5 molar? What primates have this?
35. What is a bilophodont molar?
36. What is the purpose of a diastema?
37. Where are gibbons and siamangs found?
38. What type of locomotion pattern do gibbons and siamangs exhibit?
39. Where are orangutans found?
40. Do orangutans exhibit sexual dimorphism?
41. Where are gorillas located?
42. What does their diet primarily consist of?
43. What type of locomotion patterns do they practice?
44. What is the role of the silverback?

45. Where are chimpanzees found?

46. What the two species of chimpanzees?
47. How do chimpanzees locomote?
48. Describe the social differences between a common chimpanzee and a bonobo?
49. Who belongs to the group hominid?
50. What did humans diverge from an ape common ancestor?
51. What does it mean to be bipedal?
52. What is the function of the cerebral cortex?
53. What shape is the hominid jaw? Ape jaw?
54. Is toolmaking unique to humans?
55. What key features make human language a hallmark?