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    Primate Socio-Ecology

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    Primate socio-ecology varies and has different determinants that decide many different characteristics. As a virtual paleontologist‚ we discovered two different sites and skeletal remains in Kenya and deductively reasoned their mating habits‚ group size‚ and several other characteristics about the Praeanthropus dimorphicus and the Praeanthropus monomorphicus with what I know about primate socio-ecology. Based on my prior knowledge‚ logic‚ and reasoning‚ by looking at skeletal remains we are able

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    Major groups of primates

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    What are the major groups of primates? I thought that this question was very interesting because primates are the closest living relatives to humans. Primates are fascinating because they resemble a primitive or basal version of ourselves and at the same time are also quite different from us as well. There is a large number of primate species both in the African and Asian continents as well as in the Americas. Those species that are found in Africa and Asia are collectively called old world

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    Order Primate Analysis

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    size and bipedalism. Humans‚ like other primates are considered as Order Primates in the Hominidae family and therefore are a prime example of taxonomy when the two diverged into different species. During taxonomy when humans diverged from their ancestors 6 to 7 million years ago‚ the result is the differences such as walking upright‚ brain size and overall skeletal structure are prominent due to the divergence of humans and other primates. Although primates and humans both share many anatomical‚

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    This essay will mainly focus about the similarities and differences of our species with Primates. Primates have been considered as our closest relative of our species many other’s believe that primates are very much like humans while some disagree with this point saying that the primates are nothing compared to us because we have evolved and intelligently smarter. In my opinion that Humans and Primates share similarities that can define them as our closest relative of our own species but also differences

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    Router and Switch Configuration When installing‚ setting‚ and configuring a switch it is important to know what kind of switch is needed and installed in the network. For this purpose I have chosen the Cisco switches main line‚ which is the Catalyst Switches‚ which is one of the popular series and models. They include fixed-configuration desktop models‚ configurable plug-and-play modular chassis models and packages with high-speed buses into which many cards can be inserted. To configure

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    the past. People often study non-human primates just to compare their levels and types of intelligence to that of humans‚ such as looking to discover if they have or can learn communication and language that is comparable to that of human language. Knowing whether another grouping of animals‚ especially non-human primates‚ can have a complex language or system of communication

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    Living Primates Summary

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    Article Review #2: Living Primates The sciencemag.com article “Anti-Alzheimer’s Gene may have Led to the Rise of Grandparents” by Kelli Whitlock Burton talks about the how the protective variant of the CD33 gene may explain why humans have grandmothers that help with child rearing. The article explains the “grandmother hypothesis” that says humans live such long and healthy lives even after they are no longer able to reproduce because they help with child rearing. The CD33 gene plays a big role

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    Router and Switch ConfigurationIT242October 5‚ 2014Router and Switch ConfigurationIn this paper I will discuss how to configure a router and a switch. I will discuss how to install the router and switch as well as the set up and configuration of the devices. I will start by explaining how to set up a switch then explain the router. In the setup of the switch we will be using cisco. First I will click on the switch icon and a command prompt will display. In this command prompt you will type enable

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    A Zoo for a Primate Observation 11/15/2012 For this paper I decided to visit Zoo Atlanta to observe lowland gorillas. I got to the zoo at around eleven in the morning and found out the feeding times for the gorillas. Once I found them‚ after watching them for a little while I selected the most active group to go watch during feeding. The point of this trip was to make me feel as if I was doing a field laboratory observation of primate social behavior

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    Distinctive features of primate parenting relative to other mammals are characteristics of endothermy (warm-bloodedness)‚ bearing live young (placental)‚ and feeding their young with milk produced by mammary glands. Primates display unique parenting characteristics. Some of these characteristics include fertility‚ birth interval and preadult care. Fertility features include birth to relatively few offspring at a time‚ commonly just one. Features of Birth interval are relatively long period between

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