primate neuroethology mar 2010

[...]... 2 Primate Classification and Diversity Matt Cartmill 3 Primate Locomotor Evolution: Biomechanical Studies of Primate Locomotion and Their Implications for Understanding Primate Neuroethology Daniel Schmitt 3 10 31 4 Foraging Cognition in Nonhuman Primates ¨ Klaus Zuberbuhler and Karline Janmaat 64 5 Primate Vocal Communication Robert M Seyfarth and Dorothy L Cheney 84 6 Rational Decision Making in Primates:... Communication Lizabeth M Romanski and Asif A Ghazanfar 26 Neuroethology of Attention in Primates 500 525 Stephen V Shepherd and Michael L Platt 27 Neuroethology of Decision Making 550 Daeyeol Lee 28 Out of Our Minds: The Neuroethology of Primate Strategic Behavior 570 Louise Barrett and Drew Rendall 29 The Comparative Neuropsychology of Tool Use in Primates with Specific Reference to Chimpanzees and Capuchin... our primate cousins that also sheds light on the evolution of human behavior and cognition ORGANIZATION This book brings together the latest information on primate behavior, cognition, and neuro PRIMATE NEUROETHOLOGY biology in chapters written by the foremost experts in the field The book is roughly orga nized into three sections The first section reviews our current understanding of key issues in primate. .. stem group primates (that is, the extinct sister of the crown group) However, plesiadapiforms lack the primate cranial synapomorphies listed previously, and share apomorphies of their own that exclude them from the direct ancestry of the crown group primates (Bloch et al., 2007) In what follows, the term ‘ primate ’ will be restricted to members of the crown group For most practical purposes, primates... states of various † Infraorder Adapiformes This extinct group of lemur like primates includes most of the larger and more herbivorous primates known as fossils from the Eocene Adapiforms lack the toothcomb, and it is not certain that they are 18 PRIMATE NEUROETHOLOGY Phylogenetic relationships of major clades of extant haplorhine primates (tarsiers and anthropoids), as inferred from molecular data After... relevant social information Lee follows these sensory level discussions with a review of the neuroethology of decision making in primates He argues that primates evolved more complex decision making circuits to deal with the increasing complexities associated with social interactions He reports evidence that primates can treat interactions with a computerized opponent strategically, a behavior that... monitoring of free ranging primates in a limitless variety of scenarios The added realism of these emerging techniques offers great promise for full realization of an integrated, evolutionarily motivated neu roethology of primate behavior and cognition ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Many people were instrumental in the translation of a germ of an idea into a full fledged volume on primate neuroethology This project... ORDER PRIMATES The primates are a moderately diverse order of mainly arboreal eutherians known as fossils from the earliest Eocene onward in both the New and Old Worlds Almost all extant primates inhabit tropical and subtropical forests and woodlands, though humans and some Old World monkeys range into drier and colder habitats Distinctive morphological synapomor phies of the crown group (living primates... nails in most primates, which is probably another crown group synapomorphy Grasping specializations of the hand have evolved secondarily in several primate lineages Molecular data show that primates are particu larly close relatives of treeshrews and ‘‘flying lemurs’’ or colugos (Fig 2.2) Most paleontolo gists regard the Plesiadapiformes, an extinct (Cretaceous late Eocene) group of primarily arboreal,... and nonhuman primates, although they may vary according to social struc ture, habitat, mating systems, and developmental processes Ignoring the species typical behavior of primates leads to the potentially erroneous idea that all primate brains are essentially different sized versions of the same basic plan A more promising, and biologically realistic, way to examine the neural bases of primate beha .