Anthropology 368/ Psychology 437
Primate Social Behavior
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Why did I do this? I thought it would be fun, if sort of geeky, and I
also thought it would be a relatively painless way for me to review my
notes
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Primate Photo Survey. These are slides from
Professor Pepper's lectures. Links are provided for some of the primates
to topics of special interest for that primate. (This part is still under
construction, so bear with me.)
Lecture overheads, direct from the University's Library Reserves can be
found at
ht
tp://www.lib.umich.edu/libhome/Reserves/F96/ANO368/index.html
(Case Sensitive). I don't know how soon they remove old reserves from
their filespace, so within a semester or two these may be gone.
Here are a list of the topics we covered.
Background lectures:
Variability Among Primates
Natural Selection
Primate Adaptations
Basic Taxonomy
Sexual Selection
Prosimians
New World Monkeys
Old World Monkeys
Apes
Primate Conservation
Living together:
Feeding Behavior
Spacing & Territoriality
Groups & Predation
Groups & Resources
Interspecific Interactions
Sex:
Mating Systems
Male-Male Competition
Female Mate Choice
Cooperative Polyandry
Sexual Coercion
Families:
Kinship & Dispersal
Altruism
Alloparental Behavior
Parent-Offspring Conflict
Infantcide
Social Relationships:
Females
Males & Females
Female Dominance
Adults & Infants
Further topics of interest:
Vocal Communication
The Human Primate
Brain Size, Cognition,
Intelligence
Films we watched:
The Baboons of Gombe
Chimpanzees of the Mahale
Mountains
The Primates: A Life in the
Trees
A Family of Chimps
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