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Understanding the classification of primates in this module helped me digest past modules' material on taxonomy. I learnt that there are differenet divisions, orders, and categories of primates. The two suborders of primates are Strepsirhini and Haplorhini. This furthered my understanding on what makes us human and what similarities and differences we share with other primates. I had heard of many of these factors before such as bipedalism and being able to use tools, but one I hadn't heard of is knucklewalking. This term refers to a way of walking on all 4s commonly used by African apes. It was truly interesting to see how closely we are related to monkeys from our behaviors, features, and mroe. An aha moment I had was learning about the number of primates that include 230 species. The way they are geographically spread was even more interesting. Apes are common in South Africa and South Asia even though these 2 places are separated by the Indian Ocean. Old World Monkeys make more logical sense on their geographical location as there isn't a huge body of water surrounding them from North Africa to Asia. Prosimians are similar to the geographical placement and spread of the apes near the Madagascar Islands and Africa as well as South East Asia. The New World Monkeys reside in the western hemisphere in Central America and the northern part of South America. Another interesting thing from this weeks module was looking at why monkeys still exist if humans were evolved from them - and that is that humans aren't actually directly evolutionized monkeys. This is a common myth. Another interesting thing from this week was the 2% difference paper we read by Robert Sapolsky. Addressing the fact that we as humans share 98% of our DNA with chimpanzees is evidence of evolution that is undeniable. I think this connects back to a previous module where we heard about the Scopes Trials and the Texas Board of Education's journey with evolution in curriculum. This paper is proof of evolution and supports the notion that we should teach evolution in schools.
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