Introduction Flashcards
Birute Gildikas
orangutans in borneo, orangutan foundation international, profiled by NPR
Diane Fossey
Mountain gorillas int he field station karisoke, virunga volcanoes, rwanda,
gorillas in the mist
Jane Goodall
Chimpanzees in Gombe, Tanzania, First long term study of primates
Louis S.B. Leakey, paleontology, East Africa
Wanted to study great apes to learn more about ancestors
Kinji Imanishi
Worked on japanese macaques, 1950s, founded kyotos primate research institute, japanese perspective differen than Western
Cayo island
Founded by carpenter, started with 315 monkeys, now over 1000 semi wild rhesus macaques
Clarence Ray Carpenter
First to study primates in natural environment, howler monkeys in panama, 1932, gibbons in thailand, 1940
Robert Yerkes
Labs for ape research, 1924
Primatology
Behavior and ecology, morphology, gentetics, conservation
Nature of the question
Dynamic (sequential
forms)
Static (current
form)
Proximate (how?) Ontogeny Mechanism/Causation
Ultimate (why?) Phylogeny Function/Adaptatio
phylogenesis
the evolutionary development and diversification of a species or group of organisms, or of a particular feature of an organism.
Ontogenesis
Development of an organism from early life to maturity, behavioral, anatomical
Niko Tinbergen
Founder of modern ethology, herring gulls and three spined stickleback fish, 1973 nobel w/ konrad lorenz
Morgans Cannon
“In no case may we interpret an action as the outcome of the exercise of a higher psychical faculty if it can be interpreted as athe outcome of the exercise of one which stands lower in the psychological state”
Do not anthopomorhize keep it simple!
E.O wilsons Sociobiology 1975
Emphasis on contextualized social behavior, evertything in an evolutionary context, Ethology and comparative psychology seamlessly united in new synthesis
