ANT102H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Arbitrariness, Minimal Pair, Charlie Sheen
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Ant102 lecture 4 continuation of lecture 3 and coded vs inferred(common ground) Ontogeny - development of species over a couple of days/100 years. More likely to survive and pass on their traits. Are learned by an individual (i. e. chimp arm-raise) Transformed from an instrumental action to gesture into doing something. Performed w/ diads; after repeated sequence, one can anticipate i. e. monkey infant approaches mom, raises arm, climbs on mom"s back in the sequence t1, t2, How a given individual comes to behave a particular way through ritualization. Imitation: alternative theories of learning(i. e. how humans learn through language ) Great apes command sophisticated gestures that are: flexibly used(voluntary, learned rather than inherited, sensitive to attentional state of recipient. However, these gestures are not: used to refer or share info, used to achieve join attentional states, traditionally transmitted through imitation. Apes humans, chimps, bonobos emotion, ideas, culture intelligence.
