We have learned from a very young age, a while ago, that humans stemmed from animals. In the Primate as analogies for understanding human biology behavior, it starts out with talking about how humans are mammals. Mammals and humans both are warmblooded, hair and nourish our young with milk. These arose approximately 200 million years ago. One big thing that proves we came from non human primates was the cerebral part of the brain and the hands. Many apes have hands that look like ours and they use theirs for in the trees where as we, humans, use them in terrestrial land. The grasping hands was said that this shows that it was from our heritage. Another thing we have in common with non human primates is that we have the same kind of vision. We both look with both of the eyes and register one image. We do not register two images, one in one eye and another in the other eye. They also have color vision like us.

One thing that really stood out to me was the paragraph regarding how non human primates can learn just as humans can. I remember a few years ago reading about a study and it was the most awesome thing to see. It was actually in that paragraph about Harry having baby monkeys interacting with a wire monkey or a cloth monkey. The results were insane but made ton of sense. Basically what happened was that the wire monkey gave milk, whereas the cloth monkey gave comfort. The primate always went to the cloth monkey rather than going to the wire monkey for milk. The primates went to the cloth monkey because there was an emotional bond there which is tremendously evolutionary. It was also said that the monkey ps that did not grow up with mothers never really learned how to be a monkey and when they were to interact with other monkeys they acted inappropriately. They could not mate and when they were impregnated artificially they did not know how to raise their baby and would simply “push it away”.

I truly believe that that study showed a lot about evolution and teaches us new things daily. We learned that we basically learn how to act and eat due to our mothers teaching us. If we did not have mothers or somebody to teach us we would not understand how to act in certain situations, how to eat, etc. that is one thing that I just find incredibly interesting. We even learned that we all have teeth but they are different kind of teeth due to non human primates and humans having different diets than one another. I actually thought this was my favorite week so far and that I learned a lot about how humans evolved. I knew the basics, but I feel that this week explained everything more in depth and made me begin to think in a different way. It also made a lot of more sense to me. This was overall a good week of learning.