ANTH 311 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Ontogeny, Neocortex
8 Dec 2018
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Implications for the ethical treatment of captive and wild primates. Close range calls: box 10. 1 rehabilitation, reintroduction, and sanctuary. The sections on components of communication systems and modes of primate. The second half of the chapter deals with primate cognition, and first strier addresses the somewhat complicated issue of whether primates learn through imitation or not. Then the two main selection pressures hypothesized to have shaped primate intelligence are discussed, as they are in class: ecological intelligence, in which mental maps and. Spatial memory of food supplies and tool use for purposes such as extractive foraging are discussed; also, social intelligence in which the importance of alliances, tactical. Here you should go back to chapter 2 to. Box 2. 1 the notable neocortex because it is directly relevant to the question of whether primate intelligence is primarily ecological or social in nature. In the final section on implications for the ethical treatment of captive and wild.
