| Popis: |
The Order Primates is characterized by a unique suite of cranial and postcranial features that may have evolved for visual predation on insects or exploitation of fruits in a small-branch milieu [see Cartmill (1992) for recent review]. Compared to more generalized mammals like tree shrews, primates possess a relatively larger brain with a more developed visual area and more reduced olfactory bulbs, orbits that are more approximated and more convergent with one another, and grasping hands and feet that bear nails instead of claws (Cartmill, 1970, 1972, 1974a,b, 1992; Le Gros Clark, 1959, 1963; Martin, 1986; Wood Jones, 1916). |
