ARCH 344 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Shark-Proof Cage, Hominidae, Primatology
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4 surviving great apes and they consist of 4 groups of species apes are our closest living relatives and are arguably the most intelligent of all animals who have evolved on land. We can"t understand ourselves as human beings unless we understand our primates particularly great apes. First defined in 1941 by man named schultz: was a great ape anatomist, collected primate skeletons. Primatology = study of primates = study primate behavior 3 strains/departments/traditions it comes from: zoology/veternary (mostly europe) Occasionally ecology background: psychology (usually people who study primates in cages, anthropology (mostly north america) Modern primate field studies began by yerkes (american: collected everything known about great apes and published book called (cid:862)the great apes(cid:863) in. 1989: discovered that nothing was known about the great apes in the wild, everything he collected was anecdotes and rumours so he sent his students into the field. London zoo and this led him to sweeping theory that is still around today: