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Female in Evolution: Behavioral Q&A

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The Leakey Foundation

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Partner:: Leakey Foundation
Location:: California Academy of Sciences
San Francisco, CA
Event Date:: 04.28.12
Speakers:: Dorothy Cheney,; Jill Pruetz,; Patrick Shafroth
Tags:: primate; behavior

Summary: A question and answer session of the behavioral presentations.

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Dorothy Cheney

Dr. Dorothy Cheney is an expert on primate social behavior, communication, cognition. In 1977, together with her husband and collaborator Robert Seyfarth, she began an 11 year field study of vervet monkeys in Kenya, which led to the publication of How Monkeys See the World. From 1992 through 2007 Dr. Cheney and Dr. Seyfarth studied baboons in the Okavango Delta of Botswana. In 2007, they published Baboon Metaphysics.

Jill Pruetz

Dr. Jill Pruetz is the Walvoord Professor of Liberal Arts & Sciences (Anthropology) at Iowa State University. As a primatologist, Dr. Pruetz has studied the behavior of non-human primates such as chimpanzees, spider monkeys, howling monkeys, tamarins, patas monkeys, and vervets in various locales. She is interested in the influence of ecology on primate and early human feeding, ranging, and social behavior. She currently has an ongoing research project in southeastern Senegal to study chimpanzees in a habitat similar to that of early hominids.

Patrick Shafroth

Dr. Patrick Shafroth is a Research Ecologist at the U.S. Geological Survey.

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01.: Q1: Social Differences Between Humans and Non-human Primates?

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02.: Q2: Do We Focus Too Much on Dominance?

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03.: Q3: Inability to Adjust After Losing a Loved One?

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04.: Q4: Personality vs. Temperment?

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05.: Q5: How Do Baboons Interpret Grunts?

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06.: Q6: Deception in Theory of Mind?

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07.: Q7: Problems Studying in Captivity?

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08.: Q8: Increased Survival Rate of Medium Status Females?

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09.: Q9: Psychologoical Effects of Strong Bonds?

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10.: Q10: Baboons Bond Forming and Relationship with Mother?

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In Primates, Does Dominance Matter?

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Ecologist Dr. Patrick Shafroth and biologist Dr. Dorothy Cheney discuss the effect of social dominance on longevity. They agree that while dominance can play a role, what's more important is social bonds.
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Encyclopædia Britannica Article

human evolution: Evolution of modern human beings from extinct nonhuman and humanlike forms. Genetic evidence points to an evolutionary divergence between the lineages of humans and the great apes on the African continent 8–5 million years ago (mya). The earliest fossils considered to be remains of hominins (members of the human lineage) date to at least 4 mya in Africa; they include the genus Australopithecus and other forms. The next major evolutionary stage, Homo habilis, inhabited sub-Saharan Africa about 2–1.5 mya. Homo habilis appears to have been supplanted by a taller and more humanlike species, Homo erectus, which lived from c. 1,700,000 to 200,000 years ago, gradually migrating into Asia and parts of Europe. Between c. 600,000 and 200,000 years ago, Homo heidelbergensis, sometimes called archaic Homo sapiens, lived in Africa, Europe, and perhaps parts of Asia. Having features resembling those of both H. erectus and modern humans, H. heidelbergensis may have been an ancestor of modern humans and also of the Neanderthals (H. neanderthalensis), who inhabited Europe and western Asia from c. 200,000 to 28,000 years ago. Fully modern humans (H. sapiens) seem to have emerged in Africa only c. 150,000 years ago, perhaps having descended directly from H. erectus or from an intermediate species such as H. heidelbergensis.; human evolution on britannica.com