All Apes Great And Small

Author : Biruté M.F. Galdikas,Nancy Erickson Briggs,Lori K. Sheeran,Gary L. Shapiro,Jane Goodall
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2006-04-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780306474613

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All Apes Great and Small by Biruté M.F. Galdikas,Nancy Erickson Briggs,Lori K. Sheeran,Gary L. Shapiro,Jane Goodall Pdf

Many of the papers in this volume were first presented at the Third International Great Apes of the World Conference, held July 3-6, 1998 in Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia. The editors of this volume, the first in a two-volume series, are world renowned, having dedicated most of their lives to the study of great apes. The world's premiere primatologists, ethologists, and anthropologists present the most recent research on both captive and free-ranging African great apes. These scientists, through deep personal commitment and sacrifice, have expanded their knowledge of chimpanzees, bonobos, and gorillas. With forests disappearing, many of these studies will never be duplicated. This volume, and all in the Developments in Primatology book series, aim to broaden and deepen the understanding of this valuable cause.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Apes
ISBN : OCLC:906983478

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Author : Chris Herzfeld
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780300231656

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The Great Apes by Chris Herzfeld Pdf

A unique, beautifully illustrated exploration of our fascination with our closest primate relatives, and the development of primatology as a discipline This insightful work is a compact but wide-ranging survey of humankind’s relationship to the great apes (chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, orangutans), from antiquity to the present. Replete with fascinating historical details and anecdotes, it traces twists and turns in our construction of primate knowledge over five hundred years. Chris Herzfeld outlines the development of primatology and its key players and events, including well-known long-term field studies, notably the pioneering work by women such as Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, and Biruté Galdikas. Herzfeld seeks to heighten our understanding of great apes and the many ways they are like us. The reader will encounter apes living in human families, painting apes, apes who use American Sign Language, and chimpanzees who travelled in space. A philosopher and historian specializing in primatology, Herzfeld offers thought-provoking insights about our perceptions of apes, as well as the boundary between “human” and “ape” and what it means to be either.

Author : Julian Oliver Caldecott,Lera Miles
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Apes
ISBN : 9780520246331

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World Atlas of Great Apes and Their Conservation by Julian Oliver Caldecott,Lera Miles Pdf

This comprehensive and authoritative review of the distribution and conservation status of Great Apes includes individual country profiles for each species and overview chapters on ape biology, ecology, and conservation challenges.

Author : Chris Herzfeld
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2017-01-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780300221374

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The Great Apes by Chris Herzfeld Pdf

Foreword / by Jane Goodall -- The uncanniness of similitude : wild men, simians, and hybrid beings -- Skeletons, skins, and skulls : apes in the age of colonial expansion and natural history collections -- Apes as guinea pigs : primates and experimental research -- Great apes in the eyes of scientists : what does it mean to be an ape? -- Apes that think they are human : astronaut apes, painting apes, talking apes -- Conquering the field : pioneers, the quest for origins, and primates -- Socialities, culture, and traditions among primates : when the boundary between humans and apes blurs -- Women and apes : sex, gender, and primatology -- Becoming-human, being-ape

Author : Francine L. Dolins,Christopher A. Shaffer,Leila M. Porter,Jena R. Hickey,Nathan P. Nibbelink
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 461 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2021-02-18
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781107062306

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Spatial Analysis in Field Primatology by Francine L. Dolins,Christopher A. Shaffer,Leila M. Porter,Jena R. Hickey,Nathan P. Nibbelink Pdf

A primatologist's guide to using geographic information systems (GIS); from mapping and field accuracy, to tracking travel routes and the impact of logging.

Author : Russell H. Tuttle
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 1089 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2014-02-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780674073166

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Apes and Human Evolution by Russell H. Tuttle Pdf

In this masterwork, Russell H. Tuttle synthesizes a vast research 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. Along the way, he refutes the influential theory that men are essentially killer apes—sophisticated but instinctively aggressive and destructive beings. Situating humans in a broad context, Tuttle musters convincing evidence from morphology and recent fossil discoveries to reveal what early primates ate, where they slept, how they learned to walk upright, how brain and hand anatomy evolved simultaneously, and what else happened evolutionarily to cause humans to diverge from their closest relatives. Despite our genomic similarities with bonobos, chimpanzees, and gorillas, humans are unique among primates in occupying a symbolic niche of values and beliefs based on symbolically mediated cognitive processes. Although apes exhibit behaviors that strongly suggest they can think, salient elements of human culture—speech, mating proscriptions, kinship structures, and moral codes—are symbolic systems that are not manifest in ape niches. This encyclopedic volume is both a milestone in primatological research and a critique of what is known and yet to be discovered about human and ape potential.

Author : Mahzarin R. Banaji,Susan A. Gelman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-02
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780199890712

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Navigating the Social World by Mahzarin R. Banaji,Susan A. Gelman Pdf

Navigating the Social World covers the development of social cognition from infancy into adolescence, with a focus on the first decade of human life. (dust cover).

Author : Takeshi Furuichi,Jo Thompson
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2007-12-24
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780387747873

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The Bonobos by Takeshi Furuichi,Jo Thompson Pdf

Once one of the least studied of the great apes, this new text covers the latest research into these fascinating creatures. Split into two parts, it covers scientific research, which has attempted to answer why bonobos have some unique characteristics such as high social status of females and flexible social relationships. Then, it moves on to conservation. Both the local and global aspects of the factors threatening the wild bonobo population are reviewed.

Author : Albert Somit,Steven A. Peterson
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2011-03-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780857245793

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Biology and Politics by Albert Somit,Steven A. Peterson Pdf

Examines the research in the study of biology and politics. This book explores the linkage between evolution, genetics and politics with initial chapters on abandoned baby legislation, a model of action and norms, and the biopolitics of primates. It also features chapters on how to use neuroimaging techniques to study political behaviour.

Author : Clara Jones
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2006-09-10
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780387233277

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Behavioral Flexibility in Primates by Clara Jones Pdf

Numerous figures, illustrations, and tables; integration of new literature and concepts into field of primatology; emphasis upon both behavioral and cognitive mechanisms.

Author : Julia C. Boughner,Campbell Rolian
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781118524749

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Developmental Approaches to Human Evolution by Julia C. Boughner,Campbell Rolian Pdf

Developmental Approaches to Human Evolution encapsulates the current state of evolutionary developmental anthropology. This emerging scientific field applies tools and approaches from modern developmental biology to understand the role of genetic and developmental processes in driving morphological and cognitive evolution in humans, non-human primates and in the laboratory organisms used to model these changes. Featuring contributions from well-established pioneers and emerging leaders, this volume is designed to build research momentum and catalyze future innovation in this burgeoning field. The book’s broad research scope encompasses soft and hard tissues of the head and body, including the skeleton, special senses and the brain. Developmental Approaches to Human Evolution is an invaluable resource on the mechanisms of primate and vertebrate evolution for scholars across a wide array of intersecting disciplines, including primatology, paleoanthropology, vertebrate morphology, evolutionary developmental biology and health sciences.

Author : Martin N. Muller
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 794 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2017-11-27
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780674983311

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Chimpanzees and Human Evolution by Martin N. Muller Pdf

Knowledge of wild chimpanzees has expanded dramatically. This volume, edited by Martin Muller, Richard Wrangham, and David Pilbeam, brings together scientists who are leading a revolution to discover and explain human uniqueness, by studying our closest living relatives. Their conclusions may transform our understanding of human evolution.

Author : Toshisada Nishida
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2011-12-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781139505383

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Chimpanzees of the Lakeshore by Toshisada Nishida Pdf

Chimpanzees are humanity's closest living relations and are of enduring interest to a range of sciences, from anthropology to zoology. In the West, many know of the pioneering work of Jane Goodall, whose studies of these apes at Gombe in Tanzania are justly famous. Less well-known, but equally important, are the studies carried out by Toshisada Nishida on the eastern shore of Lake Tanganyika. Comparison between the two sites yields both notable similarities and startling contrasts. Nishida has written a comprehensive synthesis of his work on the behaviour and ecology of the chimpanzees of the Mahale Mountains. With topics ranging from individual development to population-specific behavioural patterns, it reveals the complexity of social life, from male struggles for dominant status to female travails in raising offspring. Richly illustrated, the author blends anecdotes with powerful data to explore the fascinating world of the chimpanzees of the lakeshore.

Author : Michael C. Corballis
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780226287225

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The Truth about Language by Michael C. Corballis Pdf

Evolutionary science has long viewed language as, basically, a fortunate accident—a crossing of wires that happened to be extraordinarily useful, setting humans apart from other animals and onto a trajectory that would see their brains (and the products of those brains) become increasingly complex. But as Michael C. Corballis shows in The Truth about Language, it’s time to reconsider those assumptions. Language, he argues, is not the product of some “big bang” 60,000 years ago, but rather the result of a typically slow process of evolution with roots in elements of grammatical language found much farther back in our evolutionary history. Language, Corballis explains, evolved as a way to share thoughts—and, crucially for human development, to connect our own “mental time travel,” our imagining of events and people that are not right in front of us, to that of other people. We share that ability with other animals, but it was the development of language that made it powerful: it led to our ability to imagine other perspectives, to imagine ourselves in the minds of others, a development that, by easing social interaction, proved to be an extraordinary evolutionary advantage. Even as his thesis challenges such giants as Chomsky and Stephen Jay Gould, Corballis writes accessibly and wittily, filling his account with unforgettable anecdotes and fascinating historical examples. The result is a book that’s perfect both for deep engagement and as brilliant fodder for that lightest of all forms of language, cocktail party chatter.