Famous Primatologists

Question 1

Micheal Tomasello investigated..

Answer 1

primate cognition (deception):

• gaze following experiment
• quiet vs loud containers

Question 2

Hare studied..

Answer 2

in 2000; food competition between subordinates and dominantes

Question 3

Povinelli and Eddy studied

Answer 3

begging and gesturing in chimps behind plediglass barrier

povineilli- intention vs accident in orange juice study

Question 4

Kaminiski 2004

Answer 4

rebutted povinellis valence hypothesis= found the ‘senstiivity to face orientation’ case

Question 5

Whiten studied….

Answer 5

• cultural variations in gombe among chimps

- mind reading in animals

Question 6

Santos, Nissen and Ferrugia studied…

Answer 6

rhesus monkeys and cognition (knowing what others can/cant hear)

Question 7

Boesch 19993 study

Answer 7

leap clipping in tai national park and indiviudual variance

Question 8

who are the ‘trimates’ and what did they study

Answer 8

female primatologists : (sent by Louis Leakey)

Jane Goodall (chimps)
Diane Fossey (mountain gorrila Rwanda)
Birutė Galdikas (orangutans)

Question 9

craig b stanford looked at

Answer 9

meat hunting and sharing/cooperation in chimps and compared it to early hominids, ache people and bonobos

Question 10

Whitten studied..

Answer 10

1999: cultural diversity in chimps in gombe
east african chimps on an island (and nut cracking skills)

‘artificial fruit’ experiment= apes do ape (imitation)
Safari ants: gombe vs tai forest methods of sticks

Question 11

Humle and Matuzawa:

Answer 11

bossou chimps and stick types

Question 12

Richard Byrne-Bates methods

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Mirror recoginition exerpiments
‘Two-tole’ task; understand seprate roles chimps
Playback exeriment with vervety monkeys (vocalizations; infants/rank relationships

Question 13

Yale UNi study:

Answer 13

Rhesus monkeys and theory of mind (grapes study and noisy container)

Question 14

Visalbergi (Rome Experiment)

Answer 14

capuchins + peanut tube experiment= monkeys dont ape

Question 15

Carel Van Shaik

Answer 15

• human nature
• studied orangutans
• looks at cooperation
• cultural intelligence hypothesis
  -predator defense hypothesis (female reslationships)
  -hypothesis predicts a positive interspecific correlation between social-learning performance and individual learning ability
  more heavily cultural species should be more intelligent.

Question 16

Richard Wranghamn

Answer 16

’ the goodness paradox’

- resoruce defense hypothesis (female reslationships)

Question 17

Ulrich Reichard

Answer 17

• gibbons and siamangs
• monogamy in primates
• male ornaments in pig tailed macaques

Question 18

Opie

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social monogamy in gibbons

male infanticide leading to monogay

Question 19

Konrad Lorenz

Answer 19

• lorenzian aggression
• impriting and learning
• group selection
• instinct theory
• hydraulic model

Question 20

NIcholas Tinbergen

Answer 20

ornithologists
worked with lorenz on social learning
instinc theory of agggresion

Question 21

Frans dewaal

Answer 21

• empathy and cognition in apes
• cooperation and reconcilliation in apes
• how political orgnization similar to politicians
• moral behaviour and altuirism in apes
• humanism
• being an alpha male; having to still be nice and a leader

Question 22

Humphrey

Answer 22

Macchevialian Intelligence

Question 23

Aldo Leopold

Answer 23

A Sand Country Called Alamanac; 1949
environmenatlistt consequentalist philosophy

the idea of ‘land ethic’

Question 24

Denniss O’Neil

Answer 24

archeology

prehistoric culture

Question 25

Mark Sagoff

Answer 25

famous quote; animal rights + environmentliats

environemntal philosophy

Question 26

Richard Dawkins

Answer 26

selfish gene

meme evolution

Question 27

Bateman

Answer 27

Bateman’s principle

Question 28

Robert Trivers

Answer 28

• good genes hypothesis

- reciprocal altruism

Question 29

Eibel Ebelsfeld

Answer 29

• female cryptic choice

Question 30

William D Hamilston

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“hamiltons rule’; kinship

- parasite resistance principle (with ZUK)

Question 31

Robin Dunbar

Answer 31

social bonding in primates
the constraints that time places on an individual’s ability to manage their relationships, and the cognitive tricks used to overcome these.

importance of grooming
origins of language
social brain hypothesis + neocortex

Question 32

Radcliffe-Brown

Answer 32

his theory of functionalism and his role in the founding of British social anthropology.

Radcliffe-Brown’s view that social anthropology should be viewed as a branch of natural
science was naturally quite amenable to primatologists

“Social life and social
adaptation involve the adjustment of the behavior of individual organisms to the requirements of the process by which social life continues”

looked at social structures

Question 33

Humphrey

Answer 33

Macchevialian Intelligence

Question 34

cultural intelligence hypothesis

Answer 34

Whiten-Vanshaik:cultural effects could also have affected the evolution of intelligence in our lineage and other

Question 35

Andreas Paul

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The socioecology of infant handling in primates 1999

Question 36

McKenna

Answer 36

allomothering in colobine monkeys

Question 37

Wyrne Edwards

Answer 37

He was best known for his advocacy of group selection, the theory that natural selection acts at the level of the group ‘good of the sepcies’