Calendar
Calendar of readings and lecture topics for Primate Behavior.
All readings are from Primates in Perspective
. Edited by Christina J. Campbell, AgustÃn 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 |
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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 |
Citation: Fuentes, A. (2006, November 16). Calendar. Retrieved November 23, 2009, from Notre Dame OpenCourseWare Web site: http://ocw.nd.edu/anthropology/primate-behavior/calendar.
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by the Contributing Authors.
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