- Growth and development
- Embryonic stages
- Intrauterine development
- Abilities at birth: motor
sensory
- Childhood
- Sexual maturity
- Adulthood
- Theory of fetalization
- Harry Harlow's research:
- Part I. childhood
Harlow
- Part II. sexual maturity
- Primate social lives:
- Social urge: windows, etc.
- Early studies of dominance (Zuckerman)
threats
- DeVore's studies of baboons
- defense against predation
- sickness and death
- Hrdy's studies of langurs
Cercopithecid slides
Diet; Social groups; Allomothering; Female control; Male roles
- more recent studies:
relation to ecology;
social traditions (macaques, chimpanzees)
- Sexual selection:
- beards and breasts
- continuous receptivity / menstruation / concealed ovulation
- menopause and the "grandmother hypothesis"
- "rare male" effects
- Primate behavior and intelligence:
- General remarks: instinct vs. learning
examples
- Conditioned learning
- Insight learning (Kohler)
Aha! play imitation
army tank busy box
- Tool use
- Many captive species, incl. macaques-- opening locks with keys, fitting sticks together, social use of ropes
- Cebus monkeys--
- finger dexterity, "habitat generalists"
- stones and anvils to break hard seeds and fruits
- monkey helpers to handicapped humans
(https://monkeyhelpers.org/)
- Feral Rhesus macaques (unwrapping caramels in India; dunking sweet potatoes in Japan)
- Chimpanzees-- termite-fishing; leaf-sponge; drinking brush
- Detour behavior
detours
- Oddity and symbolism oddity
- Language:
- Early research- importance of language in intelligence
- Early experiments, e.g. Vicki
- Washoe —
dactylography; phoneme=word; "dirty"; "bib"
"me in"; "open hurry" (& faucets); "baby in my drink"
pictures in books/screen; "water bird", people and animals
Hockett's design features
tantrums ("terrible twos"); definitions (Piaget); "long yellow fruit..."
adopted Loulis, taught her 70 signs
Roger Fouts-- retirement home
- Other chimps: Lana, Lucy, Nim--
"hug", "tickle", "bad Lucy"; deaf children
- Koko ("red", "smart animal", "stupid", "trouble old", "that lip")
- Nicaraguan children (Judy Kegl)
- "Theory of mind": Bindi; Harambe; langur midwives
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