Which list best describes the advantages of social life for primates?
A) enhanced predator detection and defense; increased ability to compete for large food patches; regular reproductive opportunities
B) greater opportunities for socialization; predators more likely to be detected; predators less likely to detect primate prey
C) youngsters' behavior patterns develop without socialization pressures; freedom from the behavioral constraints of dominance relations
D) greater availability of mates; reduced need to share food with conspecifics; enhanced ability to drive off a predator
E) decreased competition for mates, increased need to share food with conspecifics, enhanced predator protection
Question 2
The vocal and visual signals used by nonhuman primates
A) express inner emotional and physiological states
B) are not monitored by other members of the group
C) never include the use of deception
D) are under the control of the neocortex
E) are seldom generated by the limbic system
The Scale of Life
the history of life according to fossil records
The plesiadapiforms may have been primates, but they lacked certain features, such as a postorbital
Jan de Heem, Still Life with Lobster.
Example of the Tabular List and instructional notes (conventions).
Half-life explained