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| Why Study Primate Behavior? |
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-Anatomic similarities between humans and primates help scientists to better understand diseases and human evolution.
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| How is Primate behavior useful for human evolution? |
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-Helps us better understand our origins and we can make comparisons between human anatomy and that of primates who resemble our earliest ancestors
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Evidence of cultural behaviors in other primates.
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- Possible cultural components vary by region for example hand holding in chimps differs by region.
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Social structure why is it important
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-It enhances survival and reproduction:
-fits into natural selection by favoring those behaviors that advance the species.
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-competition to group members for resources
-infectious disease
-aggression w/ group members
(higher member number in groups= increased tension)
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Role of dominance hierarchies, rank determination, rule systems and grooming
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-support natural selection, species advancement and cultural rules
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| On adult male, one adult female, and their offspring |
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| One reproductively active female, several adult males and their offspring |
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| many reproductively active adult females and males and their offspring |
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| one adult male, several adult females and their offspring |
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Fission fusion societies:
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| One main large group that may separate into sub groups for hunting and such |
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