Our Origins Resúmenes

Primate social and reproductive behavior may be purely natural or it may be learned; i.e they actively adopt a behavior through observation and imitation. These processes and the social context in which they take place are very important and elaborate in primates, and they can directly determine survival and length of life.

Discuss the selective pressures operating in the late Miocene, Pliocene, and Pleistocene that favored the adaptive radiation of monkeys and contributed to decreased diversity among apes. Name and describe, in your own words, the three hypotheses of primate origins