Name the living species of hominoids, and identify each with a few distinctive characteristics. You may use scientific names or common names. Explain why access to food is relatively more important to female primates' reproductive success than it is to males'. Consider why females' needs for food are often greater than males', and why their most effective means of maximizing reproductive success differ from males'. Explain the factors that affect whether or not a primate species tends to be territorial.
Baboons typically show great sexual dimorphism.
In a hypothetical shadowy parallel universe, living things reproduce through a process of blending inheritance, rather than our particulate, Mendelian system. The ability to roll one's tongue is a recessive trait. Griselda can roll her tongue. She marries Wilbert, who cannot. Only people with two copies of the allele have hitchhiker's thumb.