Primates In The Classroom

Author : J. Gary Bernhard
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1988-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 0870236113

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Primates in the Classroom by J. Gary Bernhard Pdf

The search for a firmer foundation for educational thought begins with an investigation into human evolution. In this book, Bernhard argues that schools must develop specific methods for dealing with certain biologically based social and emotional needs of children. This study is presented in three parts. Part 1 investigates the social and emotional contexts of learning and the activities of learning in higher primate groups. Part 2 is concerned with these learning contexts and activities as they have probably existed for most of the history of the human species. Part 3 explores the ways in which these learning contexts and activities have changed in rather recent human history, describes the problems that these changes have created in children's education, and offers suggestions for educational reform from an evolutionary perspective.

Author : Jay Dale
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Guided reading
ISBN : 1476594635

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Monkeys by Jay Dale Pdf

Find out about monkeys - what they do, what they eat, and where they live.

Author : Jennifer Keats Curtis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1628555556

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Primate School by Jennifer Keats Curtis Pdf

Gorillas using iPads, lemurs finger painting, squirrel monkeys popping bubbles . . . these primates are pretty smart! Could you make the grade in Primate School? Learn how diverse the primate family is, and some of the ways humans are teaching new skills to their primate cousins. Author Jennifer Keats Curtis is once again working with organizations across the country to share fun facts about primates through this photo journal.

Author : Jim Ottaviani
Publisher : First Second
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2013-06-11
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781466843769

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Primates by Jim Ottaviani Pdf

Jim Ottaviani returns with an action-packed account of the three greatest primatologists of the last century: Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, and Biruté Galdikas. These three ground-breaking researchers were all students of the great Louis Leakey, and each made profound contributions to primatology—and to our own understanding of ourselves. Tackling Goodall, Fossey, and Galdikas in turn, and covering the highlights of their respective careers, Primates is an accessible, entertaining, and informative look at the field of primatology and at the lives of three of the most remarkable women scientists of the twentieth century. Thanks to the charming and inviting illustrations by Maris Wicks, this is a nonfiction graphic novel with broad appeal.

Author : J. de Luce,H.T. Wilder
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781461254966

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Language in Primates by J. de Luce,H.T. Wilder Pdf

This anthology was originally planned in connection with a symposium "Language in Primates: Implications for Linguistics, Anthropology, Psychology, and Philosophy," at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio. Publication of the book would not have been possible without the support given to the Symposium by many individuals and groups. The Editors thank everyone involved for their kind and generous assistance. Specifi cally, we thank the invited speakers at the Symposium, Thomas A. Sebeok, H. Lyn Miles, Roger S. Fouts, and Thomas Simon. The chapters in this book by Miles, Fouts, and Simon are revised versions of their lectures at the Symposium. We thank Edward Simmel for his encouragement, his patience with our efforts, and his help in planning and directing the Symposium. For their financial assistance, we thank the co-sponsors of the Symposium: the Sigma Chi Foundation/William P. Huffman Scholar-in Residence Program at Miami University, as well as the Departments of Classics, Philosophy, Psychology, and Sociology and Anthropology at Miami. We thank Barbara Johnson, Polly J. Harris and Brenda Shaw for their secretarial and editorial help, and Shirley Gallimore for her patience, care, good humor, and hard work in typing the manuscript. Finally, we thank the contributors to this volume.

Author : Juan Carlos Gómez
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2009-07
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0674037790

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Apes, Monkeys, Children, and the Growth of Mind by Juan Carlos Gómez Pdf

What can the study of young monkeys and apes tell us about the minds of young humans? In this fascinating introduction to the study of primate minds, Juan Carlos Gomez identifies evolutionary resemblances--and differences--between human children and other primates. He argues that primate minds are best understood not as fixed collections of specialized cognitive capacities, but more dynamically, as a range of abilities that can surpass their original adaptations. In a lively overview of a distinguished body of cognitive developmental research among nonhuman primates, Gomez looks at knowledge of the physical world, causal reasoning (including the chimpanzee-like errors that human children make), and the contentious subjects of ape language, theory of mind, and imitation. Attempts to teach language to chimpanzees, as well as studies of the quality of some primate vocal communication in the wild, make a powerful case that primates have a natural capacity for relatively sophisticated communication, and considerable power to learn when humans teach them. Gomez concludes that for all cognitive psychology's interest in perception, information-processing, and reasoning, some essential functions of mental life are based on ideas that cannot be explicitly articulated. Nonhuman and human primates alike rely on implicit knowledge. Studying nonhuman primates helps us to understand this perplexing aspect of all primate minds.

Author : Joanna M. Setchell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2019-09-26
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781108421713

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Studying Primates by Joanna M. Setchell Pdf

The essential guide to successfully designing, conducting and reporting primatological research.

Author : Melissa Stewart
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021-07-06
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781534460393

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Fourteen Monkeys by Melissa Stewart Pdf

"In Manâu National Park in Peru, an amazing fourteen different species of monkeys live together. That's more than in any other rainforest in the world! How can they coexist so well? Find out in this lyrical, rhyming picture book that explores each monkey's habits, diet, and home, illustrating how this delicate ecosystem and its creatures live together in harmony"--

Author : Sheryl Feinstein
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 606 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-15
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781610695404

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From the Brain to the Classroom by Sheryl Feinstein Pdf

Supplying a foundation for understanding the development of the brain and the learning process, this text examines the physical and environmental factors that influence how we acquire and retain information throughout our lives. The book also lays out practical strategies that educators can take directly into the classroom. Comprising more than 100 entries, From the Brain to the Classroom: The Encyclopedia of Learning gathers experts in the fields of education, neuroscience, and psychology to examine how specific areas of the brain work in thought processes, and identifies how educators can apply what neuroscience has discovered to refine their teaching and instructional techniques. The wide range of subjects—organized within the main categories of student characteristics, classroom instructional topics, and learning challenges—include at-risk behaviors; cognitive neuroscience; autism; the lifespan of the brain, from prenatal brain development to the aging brain; technology-based learning tools; and addiction. Any reader who is interested in learning about how the brain works and how it relates to everyday life will find this work fascinating, while educators will find this book particularly helpful in validating or improving their teaching methods to increase academic achievement.

Author : Alfred L. Rosenberger
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780691189512

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New World Monkeys by Alfred L. Rosenberger Pdf

A comprehensive account of the origins, evolution, and behavior of South and Central American primates New World Monkeys brings to life the beauty of evolution and biodiversity in action among South and Central American primates, who are now at risk. These tree-dwelling rainforest inhabitants display an unparalleled variety in size, shape, hands, feet, tails, brains, locomotion, feeding, social systems, forms of communication, and mating strategies. Primatologist Alfred Rosenberger, one of the foremost experts on these mammals, explains their fascinating adaptations and how they came about. New World Monkeys provides a dramatic picture of the sixteen living genera of New World monkeys and a fossil record that shows that their ancestors have lived in the same ecological niches for up to 20 million years—only to now find themselves imperiled by the extinction crisis. Rosenberger also challenges the argument that these primates originally came to South America from Africa by floating across the Atlantic on a raft of vegetation some 45 million years ago. He explains that they are more likely to have crossed via a land bridge that once connected Western Europe and Canada at a time when many tropical mammals transferred between the northern continents. Based on the most current findings, New World Monkeys offers the first synthesis of decades of fieldwork and laboratory and museum research conducted by hundreds of scientists.

Author : Jim Ottaviani
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Graphic novels
ISBN : 1489856617

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Primates by Jim Ottaviani Pdf

In graphic novel format, explores the lives and work of scientists Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, and Biruté Galdikas, who lived with and studied chimpanzees, gorillas, and orangutans, respectively, in their natural habitats, creating between them a body of work that greatly improved our understanding of primates, including humans.

Author : Juichi Yamagiwa,Leszek Karczmarski
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-20
Category : Science
ISBN : 9784431545231

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Primates and Cetaceans by Juichi Yamagiwa,Leszek Karczmarski Pdf

In this book, the editors present a view of the socioecology of primates and cetaceans in a comparative perspective to elucidate the social evolution of highly intellectual mammals in terrestrial and aquatic environments. Despite obvious differences in morphology and eco-physiology, there are many cases of comparable, sometimes strikingly similar patterns of sociobehavioral complexity. A number of long-term field studies have accumulated a substantial amount of data on the life history of various taxa, foraging ecology, social and sexual relationships, demography, and various patterns of behavior: from dynamic fission–fusion to long-term stable societies; from male-bonded to bisexually bonded to matrilineal groups. Primatologists and cetologists have come together to provide four evolutionary themes: (1) social complexity and behavioral plasticity, (2) life history strategies and social evolution, (3) the interface between behavior, demography, and conservation, and (4) selected topics in comparative behavior. These comparisons of taxa that are evolutionarily distant but live in comparable complex sociocognitive environments boost our appreciation of their sophisticated mammalian societies and can advance our understanding of the ecological factors that have shaped their social evolution. This knowledge also facilitates a better understanding of the day-to-day challenges these animals face in the human-dominated world and may improve the capacity and effectiveness of our conservation efforts.

Author : Jean-Jacques Petter,François Desbordes
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2013-08-25
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780691156958

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Primates of the World by Jean-Jacques Petter,François Desbordes Pdf

Discusses primate evolution, behavior, and classification, and provides detailed information and illustrations, arranged geographically, on every family and nearly three hundred species.

Author : Noel Rowe,Marc Myers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Primates
ISBN : 1940496063

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All the World's Primates by Noel Rowe,Marc Myers Pdf

This book shows you photographs or a drawing of every currently recognised taxon in the primate order with a synopsis of what is known about all 505 species. The information has been compiled by over 300 primatologists from around the world, who have done field research on their particular lemur, loris, galago, monkey, or ape in its natural habitat. The book illustrates these primates with over 1500 photographs and provides over 5000 references. You will be amazed by the diversity of the worlds primates, and it will inspire you to protect endangered primates and their habitats. Fifty percent of the profits from the sale of this book will be donated to organisations working for the conservation of primates.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 664 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Medicine
ISBN : MINN:319510001936207

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Research Awards Index by Anonim Pdf