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Summarise those features shared by humans and other primates, describe their general adaptive significance, and evaluate their contribution to human adaptation.
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Summarise those features shared by humans and other primates, describe their general adaptive significance, and evaluate their contribution to human adaptation. Humans are classified by biologists as belonging to the order Primates, a group that includes lemurs, lorises, tarsiers, monkeys and apes. There are certain distinguishing features that set primates aside from other animals, and more specifically mammals. These characteristics are, large brains relative to body size; nails instead of claws; grasping hands, and in most cases grasping feet (due to opposable thumbs); and frontally positioned eyes. These can also be considered as characteristics that are shared by humans and primates. They are also classified by the characteristics they share, these being anatomy, physiology, protein structure, and even genetic material itself. The similarities on which taxonomy today is founded are symptomatic of evolutionary relationships. As a result of this, by looking into the anatomy and physiology of other primates we can...
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