Homework answers / question archive / Question 1 0 / 1 pts If you are a Strepsirhini and your native land is Not Madagascar, then:    all of these     you must be nocturnal     you have claws on all your digits instead of nails     you have a prehensile tail     Question 2 1 / 1 pts Which primate does NOT have a post-orbital plate?    baboon     chimpanzee    lemur     gibbon     Question 3 1 / 1 pts The 2

Question 1 0 / 1 pts If you are a Strepsirhini and your native land is Not Madagascar, then:    all of these     you must be nocturnal     you have claws on all your digits instead of nails     you have a prehensile tail     Question 2 1 / 1 pts Which primate does NOT have a post-orbital plate?    baboon     chimpanzee    lemur     gibbon     Question 3 1 / 1 pts The 2

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Question 1

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If you are a Strepsirhini and your native land is Not Madagascar, then: 

 

all of these

   

you must be nocturnal

   

you have claws on all your digits instead of nails

   

you have a prehensile tail

 

 

Question 2

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Which primate does NOT have a post-orbital plate?

  

baboon

   

chimpanzee

  

lemur

   

gibbon

 

 

Question 3

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The 2.1.2.3 primate dental formula used in phylogenetic reconstructions is NOT found in:

  

Catarrhines

   

Hominioids

   

Platyrrhines

   

Cercopithecoids

 

 

IncorrectQuestion 4

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Intrasexual selection in primates that favors scramble competition results in:

  

increased testes size

   

increased brain size

   

increased body size

   

increased canine size

 

 

IncorrectQuestion 5

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Primates are characterized by:

  

a reduction in the visual sense relative to the olfactory sense

   

all of these

   

specialized molars

   

stereoscopic vision

 

 

Question 6

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Studying a group of species which share many characteristics due to common ancestry is an example of:

  

reasoning from homology

   

reasoning from analogy

   

reasoning from convergence

   

reasoning from divergence

 

 

Question 7

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What is the difference between intersexual and intrasexual selection?

  

Intersexual selection occurs as a result of interactions between males and females of a species. In contrast, intrasexual selection occurs between members of the same sex.

   

Intrasexual selection occurs as a result of interactions between males and females of a species. In contrast, intersexual selection occurs between members of the same sex.

  

Intersexual selection is only between males, and intrasexual selection is only between females

  

Intrasexual selection is only between males, and intersexual selection is only between females

 

 

Question 8

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Tarsiers, monkeys, apes, and humans are placed together in which suborder?

  

Strepsirhini

  

Hominoidea

  

Lorisoidea

  

Haplorhini

 

 

Question 9

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All Old World Monkeys belong to which superfamily?

  

Monquidae

  

Cercopithecidae

  

Callitrichidae

  

Ominidae

 

 

Question 10

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_________ is seen in some New World monkeys, but not in any Old World monkeys.

  

A grasping hand

   

A prehensile tail

   

Color vision

   

An arboreal lifestyle