ACBS 160D1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Coevolution, Interdisciplinarity, Trophy Hunting

• School: University of Arizona
• Department: Animal & Comp Biomed Sciences
• Course: ACBS 160D1
• Professor: H.Steklis, N.Steklis

Document Summary

Wrestling with the ethics of testing on animals, they have a variety of perspectives: distance relationship, experimentation relationships, scientific relationships. Understanding a variety of perspectives on these human relationships. Need to be able to step back from our own personal feelings about this: course objectives, overall aim: to understand the biological and cultural dimensions of our relationship to animals, how we will accomplish overall aim: Analyze the various ways that animals have been and continue to be used in human societies; Describe and understand the long evolutionary history of the human-animal relationship; Understand the influence of biological, historical, and cultural factors on the human-animal relationship; Examine the complex biological and social relationships between animals and humans, especially the co-evolution between humans and certain domesticated species; Identify the reasons for, and consequences of, animal domestication; Describe the complex role played by pets in modern society; We will synthesize materials from a broad array of disciplines (anthropology, psychology, animal behavior)