ANTH100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Kanzi

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTH100
• Professor: Nancy Barrickman

Document Summary

Fitness: individual"s genetic contribution to the next generation. Estrus (only time they can have intercourse and become pregnant) Choice of who to mate with/how males coerce her. Long period of infant dependency, teaching and facilitating the infant. Lots of dimorphism: one male, many female; multimale and multifemale. Pair-ponded, paternal care, cooperative care, kin selection, faster reproductive rates. Infanticide: hanuman langurs, chimps, gorillas, colobus, baboons, resumes cycling. Critics say: it is rare, human-induced (competition over resources), inadvertent. Varies from place to place (tradition), variation not correlated with ecology and genetics. High-quality food resources, learned, planned ahead, selective materials, nut cracking. Human adaptation, evolved from some preceding behavioural complex. Recombinational: recursive defining infinite statements using finite components, syntax. Displacement: talk about what happened, what could happen, where/when/how, animals only talk about the now.