ANT 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Behavioral Enrichment, Lactiferous Duct, Estrogen Receptor
11 Dec 2016
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Irreversible loss of depth perception: deviated eye: alternating eye that you"re looking through, but never both at the same time. Should get surgery to fix as soon as possible, early in life: social deprivation in monkeys, new epigenetics, low licking and grouping --> more methylation in dna in estrogen receptor promoting. Can be placed with high licking mother and methylation will decrease and they will become high licking: environmental enrichment. Isolation: raised with others, experience changes brain. Cultural variants: diff tools used in diff places, not genetic, but learned, does not have to do ecological conditions but cultural situations they are in. Capuchin stone tool: most tool using in new world monkeys. How did lang evolve: kanzi understand level of 2. 5 year old, lexograms. Evolution of learning transfer: how learning is effective when conditions are reversed or learning must be trained the opp way.
