Primatology Notes #8
GROWTH and DEVELOPMENT



  • 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     DeVore's films
    •     Central Hierarchy; defense against predation
    •     sickness and death
    •     succession in Central Hierarchy; role of "scout"
    • 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
  • Human babies and child development




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