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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
1   Introduction & General: expectations, vocabulary, concepts
   
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
 
3   Behavioral Ecology 1

Behavioral Ecology 2
Overdorf and Parga

Lambert
 
4

The Primates: A Selected Survey
Behavioral Ecology 3

The Callitrichids


Digby, Ferrari and Saltzman
 
5   The Lemurs

The Macaques
Gould and Sauther

Thierry
 
6   The Atelines

The Gibbons
DiFiore and Campbell

Bartlett
 
7   The Orangutans

The Chimpanzees
Knott

Stumpf


Review for MidTerm
8    The Gorillas
Robbins Mid-term Exam
9 Current Topics in Primatology and Primate Behavior
Sexuality and Reproduction

Mate Choice
Campbell

Manson
 
10   Social Learning
Caldwell and Whiten
 
11   Social Organization

Conflict Negotiation
Fuentes, Bernstein

Arnold and Aureli
 
12   Cooperation and Competition

Conservation
Sussman and Garber

Strier
 
13   Ethnoprimatology Wolfe and Fuentes  
14   Why is Primatology in Anthropology?
  Review for Final Exam
15   Course Wrap-up
  Project Reports
 
Final Exam
Copyright 2009, by the Contributing Authors. Cite/attribute Resource. mmacintyre. (2006, November 16). Calendar. Retrieved November 07, 2009, from Notre Dame OpenCourseWare Web site: http://ocw.nd.edu/anthropology/primate-behavior/calendar. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License. Creative Commons License