Primate People
Author: Lisa Kemmerer
Publisher:
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781607811534
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This thought-provoking collection sheds light on the plight of our nonhuman primate cousins--and what we can do to help
Author: Lisa Kemmerer
Publisher:
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781607811534
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This thought-provoking collection sheds light on the plight of our nonhuman primate cousins--and what we can do to help
Author: Frans B. M. de Waal
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2009-07-01
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 0674033027
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →How did we become the linguistic, cultured, and hugely successful apes that we are? Our closest relatives--the other mentally complex and socially skilled primates--offer tantalizing clues. In Tree of Origin nine of the world's top primate experts read these clues and compose the most extensive picture to date of what the behavior of monkeys and apes can tell us about our own evolution as a species. It has been nearly fifteen years since a single volume addressed the issue of human evolution from a primate perspective, and in that time we have witnessed explosive growth in research on the subject. Tree of Origin gives us the latest news about bonobos, the make love not war apes who behave so dramatically unlike chimpanzees. We learn about the tool traditions and social customs that set each ape community apart. We see how DNA analysis is revolutionizing our understanding of paternity, intergroup migration, and reproductive success. And we confront intriguing discoveries about primate hunting behavior, politics, cognition, diet, and the evolution of language and intelligence that challenge claims of human uniqueness in new and subtle ways. Tree of Origin provides the clearest glimpse yet of the apelike ancestor who left the forest and began the long journey toward modern humanity.
Author: Russell H. Tuttle
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2014-02-17
Total Pages: 1089
ISBN-13: 0674073169
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Russell Tuttle synthesizes a vast literature in primate evolution and behavior to explain how apes and humans evolved in relation to one another and why humans became a bipedal, tool-making, culture-inventing species distinct from other hominoids. He refutes the theory that we are sophisticated, instinctively aggressive and destructive killer apes.
Author: Frans B. M. DE WAAL
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2009-06-30
Total Pages: 309
ISBN-13: 0674033086
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Examines how simians cope with aggression, and how they make peace after fights.
Author: Michael Tomasello
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 546
ISBN-13: 9780195106244
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book reviews all that is scientifically known about the cognitive skills of non-human primates and assesses the current state of our knowledge.
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Publisher: National Academies
Published: 1981-01-01
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Carel P. Van Schaik
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2016-01-26
Total Pages: 546
ISBN-13: 0470147636
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Primate Origins of Human Nature (Volume 3 in The Foundations of Human Biology series) blends several elements from evolutionary biology as applied to primate behavioral ecology and primate psychology, classical physical anthropology and evolutionary psychology of humans. However, unlike similar books, it strives to define the human species relative to our living and extinct relatives, and thus highlights uniquely derived human features. The book features a truly multi-disciplinary, multi-theory, and comparative species approach to subjects not usually presented in textbooks focused on humans, such as the evolution of culture, life history, parenting, and social organization.
Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 2003-07-13
Total Pages: 181
ISBN-13: 030908914X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The field of occupational health and safety constantly changes, especially as it pertains to biomedical research. New infectious hazards are of particular importance at nonhuman-primate facilities. For example, the discovery that B virus can be transmitted via a splash on a mucous membrane raises new concerns that must be addressed, as does the discovery of the Reston strain of Ebola virus in import quarantine facilities in the U.S. The risk of such infectious hazards is best managed through a flexible and comprehensive Occupational Health and Safety Program (OHSP) that can identify and mitigate potential hazards. Occupational Health and Safety in the Care and Use of Nonhuman Primates is intended as a reference for vivarium managers, veterinarians, researchers, safety professionals, and others who are involved in developing or implementing an OHSP that deals with nonhuman primates. The book lists the important features of an OHSP and provides the tools necessary for informed decision-making in developing an optimal program that meets all particular institutional needs.
Author: Herbert S. Terrace
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2019-10-01
Total Pages: 250
ISBN-13: 0231550014
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In the 1970s, the behavioral psychologist Herbert S. Terrace led a remarkable experiment to see if a chimpanzee could be taught to use language. A young ape, named “Nim Chimpsky” in a nod to the linguist whose theories Terrace challenged, was raised by a family in New York and instructed in American Sign Language. Initially, Terrace thought that Nim could create sentences but later discovered that Nim’s teachers inadvertently cued his signing. Terrace concluded that Project Nim failed—not because Nim couldn’t create sentences but because he couldn’t even learn words. Language is a uniquely human quality, and attempting to find it in animals is wishful thinking at best. The failure of Project Nim meant we were no closer to understanding where language comes from. In this book, Terrace revisits Project Nim to offer a novel view of the origins of human language. In contrast to both Noam Chomsky and his critics, Terrace contends that words, as much as grammar, are the cornerstones of language. Retracing human evolution and developmental psychology, he shows that nonverbal interaction is the foundation of infant language acquisition, leading up to a child’s first words. By placing words and conversation before grammar, we can, for the first time, account for the evolutionary basis of language. Terrace argues that this theory explains Nim’s inability to acquire words and, more broadly, the differences between human and animal communication. Why Chimpanzees Can’t Learn Language and Only Humans Can is a masterful statement of the nature of language and what it means to be human.
Author: John A. Livingston
Publisher:
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →. Powerful and uncompromising, Rogue Primate asks the disturbing question of what it really means to be a human living in a non-human world.