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The film will help you understand: How primates evolved unique anatomical adaptations that still aid us today The anatomical adaptations that aided bipedal walking How unique human brain development is How all living things on earth are interconnected  Instruction: Please watch the following movie and then type up your answers to the 12 questions asked in the assignment

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The film will help you understand:

• How primates evolved unique anatomical adaptations that still aid us today
• The anatomical adaptations that aided bipedal walking
• How unique human brain development is
• How all living things on earth are interconnected 

Instruction:

Please watch the following movie and then type up your answers to the 12 questions asked in the assignment. Make sure your answers are complete, thorough, well thought out, and well written. Pay close attention to spelling and grammatical composition.  Assignments using word-for-word information from online sources will be graded as a zero. Please see the grading rubric for more information: Grading Rubric for Movie Reviews.pdf

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1. What makes the hands of humans and non-human primates unique?
2. What evolutionary forces lead to these adaptations?
3. How did color vision evolve?
4. Why is it an advantage to primates?
5. And how do humans use colors to communicate?  Give at least two examples.
6. What parts of Lucy’s body indicate she was bipedal?
7. What parts of Ardi’s body indicate she was bipedal?
8. What did the environment look like ~4.4 mya?  Why are these findings controversial?
9. Why and how do you think bipedalism evolved?
10. Discuss some of the consequences of bipedalism found in the human body and what causes them.
11. Discuss what makes our brains different from other primates. Give at least two examples.
12. How are human and fish brains similar?  Why should we expect to see this similarity?