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| a suite of physical traits that enable an organism to live in trees |
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| a diet's flexibility in adapting to a given environment |
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| the time and energy parents expend for their offspring's benefit. |
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| refers to primates' thumb, in that it can touch each of the four fingertips, enabling a grasping ability |
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| a fistlike grip in which the fingers and thumbs wrap around an object in opposite directions |
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| a precise grip in which the tips of the fingers and thumbs come together, enabling fine manipulation |
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| an organism's use of an anatomical feature in a way unrelated to the feature's original function |
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| refers to those organisms that normally are awake and active during daylight hours |
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| the naked surface around the nostrils, typically wet in mammals |
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| the numerical description of a species' teeth, listing the number, in one quadrant of the jaws, of incisors, canines, premolars, and molars |
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| an enamel ridge connecting cusps on a tooth's surface. |
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| refers to lower molars, in Old World monkeys, that have two ridges. |
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| hominoids' pattern of lower molar cusps |
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| anterior teeth (incisors and canines) that have been tilted forward, creating a scraper. |
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| canine-premolar honing complex |
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| the dental form in which the upper canines are sharpened against the lower third premolars when the jaws are opened and closed. |
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| a space between two teeth |
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| refers to a premolar adapted for cutting |
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| the portion of the anterior brain that detects odors. |
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| primitive characteristics |
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| characteristics present in multiple species of a group |
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| characteristics present in only one or a few species of a group |
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| the evolutionary relationships of a group of organisms |
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| humans and human ancestors in a more recent evolutionary taxonomy; based on genetics |
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| a tail that acts as a kind of a hand for support in trees, common in New World monkeys |
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| organisms that move by brachiation, or arm-swinging |
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