Survey of the Living
Primates
Course Description
Instructor: Ryne A. Palombit
Textbook:
Falk, D. 2000. Primate Diversity. W.W. Norton, New York.
Course Requirements:
1. Test 1 (30%).
2. Test 2 (33%)
3. Test 3 (37%).
Classroom
etiquette
While students are in class, they are expected to give their full
attention to the lecture. Reading, talking, eating, text-messaging, and
leaving or packing up to leave before the professor has dismissed the
class are inappropriate classroom behaviors, disruptive to other
students, and will not be tolerated. If for some reason you know that
you will need to leave lecture early, let me know before class begins,
sit near a door, and leave quietly and unobtrusively. If you come to
class late, be sure to enter quietly and take care not to disturb the
class in progress. Also, please make sure that your watch alarms,
pagers, and cell phones do not go off during class.
Lecture Schedule
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1 |
Introduction: Why Study Primates? | |
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2 |
Evolution & natural selection | pp. 18-19, 43-44, 116-117 |
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3 |
What is a primate? | pp. 1-13, 27 (Neural Note 1), 39-40 (tree shrews) |
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4 |
Introducing the Primates: Strepsirhini |
Chapters 3 (pp. 63-79) & 4 |
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5 |
Introducing the Primates: Haplorhini I: Tarsiers & New World Monkeys |
Chapters 3 (pp 79-83), 5 & 6 |
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6 |
Introducing the Primates: Haplorhini II: Old World Monkeys & Apes |
pp. 257-264, pp. 277-289, pp. 299-310, pp. 319-326 |
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7 |
David Attenborough's A Life in the Trees | Handouts (online): A Taxonomy of Living Primates Film Guide to A Life in the Trees |
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Review
relevant material from previous chapters |
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9 |
Primate
Diets |
pp. 58-59, 123-124, 325 (Box 13) |
| 10 |
Kin
Selection in theory & in (primate) practice |
pp. 43-44, 54-56. |
| 11 |
TEST 1 |
Covers
material through "Primate Diets" |
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12 |
Reciprocity in theory & in (primate) practice | Wilkinson,
G.S. 1990. Food sharing in vampire bats. Scientific American,
76:76-82. de Waal, F.B.M. 2005. How animals do business. American Scientist, 73-79. |
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Reproduction
& Sexual Selection Theory
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pp. 43-44, 48, 50-54 |
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Primate Societies I The "Dispersed" Social System |
pp. 49-50 (primate social system), 285-289 |
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Primate Societies II Multi-male, Multi-Female Groups |
pp. 51-53, 236-7, 246-255 |
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Primate Societies III Uni-male, multi-female groups Hierarchical fusion-fission social system |
pp. 192-196, 206-207, 217-219, 308-311, 316 |
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Primate
Societies IV Dispersed fusion-fission social system Social Monogamy Polyandry |
pp. 264-275 |
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18 |
Infanticide: Strategy & Counter-strategy |
pp. 51, 194-196. Hrdy, S.B. 1984. When the bough
breaks. The Sciences,
24:44-50. |
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TEST 2 |
Covers
material from "Kin selection" through "Infanticide" lectures
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| 20 |
Male Dominance & Hormones |
Recall pp.
249-55. |
| 21 |
Primate
Politics? |
pp.27
(Neural Note 1), p. 57 (Neural Note 2), 289-296, 311-315, 335-338 Byrne, R.W. & Bates, L.A. 2005. Why are animals cognitive? Current Biology, 16:R445-R448. |
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Primate Minds: Social cognition |
pp.
57, 242, 290 (Neural Note 11) |
| 23 |
Primate Minds:
Theory of Mind |
pp.
336-338 Note: the reading below by Seyfarth & Cheney (1992) will also address some issues of Theory of Mind in the context of vocal communication |
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24 |
Vocal
communication
& Language
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pp.
335-337.
Seyfarth, R.M. & Cheney, D.L. 1992. Meaning and mind in monkeys. Scientific American, 267:122-128. |
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Cultural Primatology |
pp.
243-46, 319-321,
326-328, 335-337. Whiten, A.W. 2005. The second inheritance system of chimpanzees and humans. Nature, 437:52-55. |
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Movie: Among the Wild Chimpanzees (National Geographic Society)
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Chimpanzee & Bonobo Societies |
pp.
332-333. de Waal, F.B.M. 1995. Bonobo sex and society. Scientific American, 272:82-88. de Waal, F.B.M. 2005. A century of getting to know the chimpanzee. Nature, 437:56-59. |
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OPEN |
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Final Exam
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Covers
material from "Male dominance & hormones" through last lecture |