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Primates and Humans

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In science, we are now closing our primate unit. Throughout the unit, I noticed that there were similarities and differences between primates and humans. For example, my primate the white-faced saki, their family grouping is a lot like ours. They live in a family group that consist of the parents and two to three offspring. Also, older offspring are allowed to take care of younger siblings. This is different to a lot of other primates because usually the mother is the only one allowed to take care of the newborn offspring. Something that is similar about the family groupings between humans and my primate, is that they both have the same family grouping system, the amount of offspring that are born are about the same (depending w
here in the world you live), and depending on the parent, older siblings are allowed to take care of babies.

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Something I noticed that was different about primates and humans was that primate infants learn and mature a lot quicker than humans. For example, in the Jane Goodall movie that we watched in class, the baby chimp Flint, was already taking his first steps at six months. For humans, babies usually take their first steps at nine to twelve months.

Something else that was different was that primates can have polygamous mating systems. Polygamous mating is when a gender has more than one wife or husband. For example, Morgan H's primate, the brown capuchin monkey, has a polygamous mating system. For humans, we use the monogamous mating system. And monogamous mating is actually what my primate, the white-faced saki does more frequently than polygamous mating.
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