primatology


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the branch of zoology that studies primates

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Glanz will spend the semester working alongside primatology scholars and will have the opportunity to contribute valuable research to ongoing studies.
Yee, P Barry et al., "Prevalence of antibodies to selected viruses in a long-term closed breeding colony of rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta) in Brazil," American Journal of Primatology, vol.
Takasaki, "Physiological activities and the active constituents of potentially medicinal plants used by wild chimpanzees of the Mahale mountains, Tanzania," International Journal of Primatology, vol.
He pursues human universals, or our common denominator, with rigor and perceptiveness--visiting the humanities, cultural and social sciences, and natural sciences--with over 700 indexed authors in psychology, philosophy, history, prehistory, linguistics, sociology, ecology, and primatology. Over 1,400 in-text parenthetical citations are tied to the extensive bibliography.
Gorillas allows readers to consider a series of thematic and rhetorical variables that, by their very nature, invite posthumanist considerations: from the subject matter of primatology to the activist undertones of this memoir by a white American female, and from gorilla consciousness to the implosion of human speech itself, the text emerges as a prosperous site from which to approach the (non)human.
Bonobos in a sanctuary's protected forests in the Democratic Republic of Congo crack nuts with stones nearly as well as wild chimps in other parts of Africa do, researchers report online August 26 in the American Journal of Primatology. Wild bonobos have rarely been observed using tools and have never been reported to pound open nuts with stones (SN: 9/19/15, p.
The last half-century has seen much progress in evolutionary studies in academic fields such as archaeology, paleoanthropology, cognitive neuroscience, music cognition, ethology, primatology, linguistics, and semiotics.
Curtis (Eds.), Field and laboratory methods in primatology: a practical guide (pp.
"The observed infant exhibited symptoms resembling Down syndrome, similar to those reported previously for a captive chimpanzee," they said in an abstract of the study published Monday in the online edition of Primates, an international journal of primatology.
That's been documented repeatedly, not in wacko anti-homosexual-agenda propaganda rags but in publications such as Endocrinology, the Journal of Comparative Neurology, the International Journal Primatology, etc.
(ed.) Bones Genetics and Behavior of Rhesus Macaques -Developments in Primatology: Progress and Prospects.
While Nussbaum expostulates on thinkers like Comte, Mill, Mozart, Abraham Lincoln, Rousseau, Tagore, Whitman, Martin Luther King Jr., Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Gandhi, Nehru, Frederick Law Olmstead, Daniel Batson, Donald Winnicott, and (most importantly) John Rawls; comfortably working in a transdisciplinary manner in fields like philosophy, ethics, history, music, empirical psychology, primatology, opera, literature, architecture, ancient Greek tragedy and comedy, urban studies and the modern university; she painfully (or stubbornly) avoids God-talk.