Primate hand features

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Primate hand features

Nails, opposable thumbs, friction ridges and grasping reflexes in young primates are anatomical features that have been selected for within the primate lineage. Your task is to explore and explain how primate hand features enhance fitness.

Make sure you answer all of the following questions for full points.

1. What does the arboreal hypothesis generally suggest about the unique traits primate possess on their hand?

2. Explain how primate hand features increase fitness and give one examples. When writing about your example name the hand feature that you have chosen and explain clearly why it increase fitness in a tree environment.

3. Conjecture what would happen if a primate infant did not possess your chosen primate hand features.

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Objectives - to understand primate hand features as adaptations to an arboreal environment Student will be able to explain the importance of the arboreal hypothesis in explaining primate hand features 2.5 pts Student explained how the arboreal hypothesis is able to explain primate specific hand features 1.5 pts 0.0 pts Student described arboreal No Marks hypothesis but did not explain Student did not explain its importance to primate hand what the arboreal featrues hypothesis is or its importance to hand features 2.5 pts Objectives - to understand primate hand features as adaptations to an arboreal environment Student will explain how primate hand features increase fitness and give one examples 5.0 pts Student was able to explain how primate hand features increase fitness and gave an example of a primate hand feature that clearly increase fitness in a tree environment 4.0 pts Student explained how primate hand features increase fitness but did not give an example that showed how primate hand features increase fitness. 0.0 pts No Marks Student made no attempt at explaining how primate hand features increase fitness. 5.0 pts 2.5 pts Student was able to explain what would happen if a primate infant did not possess student's chosen primate hand features. Objectives - to understand primate hand features as adaptations to an arboreal environment Student will be able to explain the importance of the arboreal hypothesis in explaining primate hand features 0.0 pts No Marks Student did not explain what would happen if a primate infant lacked primate hand features 2.5 pts Total Points: 100
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Running head: PRIMATE HAND FEATURES

Primate Hand Features
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PRIMATE HAND FEATURES
Primate hand features
What does the arboreal hypothesis generally suggest about the unique trait’s primate
possess on their hand?
The arboreal hypothesis states that primates evolved by adapting to the arboreal life. The
hypothesis claims that the primates developed their various features, traits and characteristics by
living on trees. This explains the development of their ha...


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