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Calendar of readings and lecture topics for Primate Behavior.
All readings are from Primates in Perspective. Edited by Christina J. Campbell, Agustín Fuentes, Katherine C. MacKinnon, Melissa Panger, and Simon K. Bearder, 2006, Oxford University Press.
| Week | Theme | Topic | Readings | Assignment |
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| 1 | Introduction & General: expectations, vocabulary, concepts |
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| 2 | The Background Basics | Primate Taxonomy: who and what are the primates; Primate Evolution and Phylogeny Behavior: general concepts; Behavioral Data Collections: methods and practice |
Hartwig Ray |
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| 3 | Behavioral Ecology 1 Behavioral Ecology 2 |
Overdorf and Parga Lambert |
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| 4 | The Primates: A Selected Survey |
Behavioral Ecology 3 The Callitrichids |
Digby, Ferrari and Saltzman |
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| 5 | The Lemurs The Macaques |
Gould and Sauther Thierry |
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| 6 | The Atelines The Gibbons |
DiFiore and Campbell Bartlett |
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| 7 | The Orangutans The Chimpanzees |
Knott Stumpf |
Review for MidTerm |
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| 8 | The Gorillas |
Robbins | Mid-term Exam |
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| 9 | Current Topics in Primatology and Primate Behavior |
Sexuality and Reproduction Mate Choice |
Campbell Manson |
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| 10 | Social Learning |
Caldwell and Whiten |
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| 11 | Social Organization Conflict Negotiation |
Fuentes, Bernstein Arnold and Aureli |
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| 12 | Cooperation and Competition Conservation |
Sussman and Garber Strier |
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| 13 | Ethnoprimatology | Wolfe and Fuentes | ||
| 14 | Why is Primatology in Anthropology? |
Review for Final Exam |
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| 15 | Course Wrap-up |
Project Reports Final Exam |
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Fuentes, A. (Nov 16, 2006). Calendar. Retrieved May 25, 2013, from Notre Dame OpenCourseWare Web site: http://ocw.nd.edu/anthropology/primate-behavior/calendar.
