Anthropology 1026F/G Lecture Notes - Hamadryas Baboon, Jane Goodall, Stereopsis

• School: Western University
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: Anthropology 1026F/G
• Professor: Teresa Topic

Document Summary

Last week: primate order, primate traits limbs, locomotion (tree swingers or knuckle-walkers), teeth, diet, brain & senses (nose-orientation or techni- colour stereoscopic vision), social patterns, taxonomy its issues with primates. 5 for this wed: recall jane goodall & fascination with primates (among all primatologists & general human characteristic) Intrigue for humans in watching similarities & differences (between human mannerism & non- human primate mannerisms; human social groupings & non-human social groupings, etc. : from observing other primates, we can guess how much we are shaped by: Barbara smuts > study of friendship in baboons. Male baboons may become close friends with females (such that female doesn"t sense sexual arousal) Birute galdikas > orang-utan study: high # of women in studying primates, are males looking for something different than women? i. e. aggression, dominance, status/hierarchy. Key attributes of primate social patterns: group size & composition basic info on vast diversity of species.