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The E-Skeletons Project
a. Compare the human and the baboon cranium. Describe each bone. What are the differences between the two?

b. Compare the human and gorilla cranium. Describe each bone. What are the differences between the two?

c. Compare the human and gorilla mandible. Describe each bone. What are the differences between the two?

d. Compare the human and baboon mandible. Describe each bone. What are the differences between the two?

e. Compare the human and baboon innominate. Describe each bone. What are the differences between the two?

f. Compare the human and gorilla innominate. Describe each bone. What are the differences between the two?


( http://www.eskeletons.org/ )
Primate Brains
a. Look at the images of the brains of the ring-tailed lemur, tarsier, spider monkey, baboon chimp and human. What are the differences?

b. In the “brain evolution” section, click on “paleoneurology.” What is an endocast? What information is derived from an endocast?

c. Click on “brain development”. Describe the development of the human brain.


( http://brainmuseum.org/Specimens/primates/index.html )
The Skull Module (human)
a. Click on the bone that is light blue in color. What bone is this? Rotate the bone to view it from all angles. Describe the bone.

b. Click on the bone that is dark blue in color. What bone is this? Rotate the bone to view it from all angles. Describe the bone.

c. Click on the bone that is purple in color. What bone is this? Rotate the bone to view it from all angles. Describe the bone.

d. Click on the bone that is green in color. What bone is this? Rotate the bone to view it from all angles. Describe the bone.

e. Click on the bone that is orange in color. What bone is this? Rotate the bone to view it from all angles. Describe the bone.

f. Click on the bone that is yellow in color. What bone is this? Rotate the bone to view it from all angles. Describe the bone.


( http://www.csuchico.edu/anth/Module/skull.html )
Innerbody (human anatomy)
a. Click on the skeleton in the upper left hand section. Click on and describe at least four different parts of the skeleton.

b. Click on “animations” and watch the “field of vision” animation. What does this animation illustrate?

c. Click on “images” and view all four birth-related images.


( http://www.innerbody.com/htm/body.html )
Visible Human Project
a. What is the Visible Human Project?

b. What are the three planes of section? Describe each one.

c. Click on “Annotated Images” and then “Section through the pelvis.” Describe what you see.

d. Click on “Annotated Images” and then “Section through the head, at the level of the eye.” Describe what you see.


( http://www.madsci.org/~lynn/VH/ )
Primate Handedness and Brain Lateralization:
a. What is meant by the term brain lateralization?

b. What does brain lateralization have to do with handedness?


( http://www.indiana.edu/~primate/index.html )
Primate Locomotion
a. What are the different forms of locomotion used by primates? Give an example of a primate who uses each type?

b. What anatomical features reflect locomotor pattern? Give an example for each type of locomotion.

c. What is an intermembral index? What is the typical intermembral index for each form of locomotion?


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Becoming Human
a. Click on “learning center” and then on “building bodies.” Assemble the appropriate bones into a complete chimp and a complete human skeleton.

b. Which bones did you have the most difficulty with?

c. What is the difference between the foramen magnum in chimps versus in humans?

d. What are the differences in the pelvis and femurs?

e. What are other important differences between the two skeletons?


( http://www.becominghuman.org/ )







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