ANT203Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: The Trimates, Harry Harlow, Jane Goodall
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Behaviour = anything organisms do that involves an action i response to internal or external. November 20, 2012. stimuli: hormone changes, hunger, Innate: response to a stimuli that is formed spontaneously (eg. crying, being startled, physical reflex), automatic behaviour: learned: chimpanzee tool use, behaviour that is taught/learned and not naturally known. Ultimate: explains traits in terms of evolutionary forces acting on them. Immediate causes of behaviour (eg. underlying physiological factor behind behaviour, bonobos and sex) Ontogenetic: how a particular behaviour develops during the lifespan of a person, animal, species, etc. (where does a particular behaviour start, does tool use happen during childhood, adolescence, etc. ?) Phylogenetic: how different species compare to one another (differences/similarities between chimpanzees and bonobos, or between different chimpanzee populations) Robert yerkes: human psychiatrist, first to send out students to study primate psychology. Raymond carpenter: student of yerkes, studied wild groups of howler monkeys.
