This year marks the 60th anniversary of the founding of primatology in Japan, thanks to the works of Kinji Imanishi. Current Biology hosts an essay by Tetsuro Matsuzawa and William McGrew, which reviews Imanishi’s contributions to the field. The essay can be found at this link, “Kinji Imanishi and 60 years of Japanese primatology.”
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Entries Tagged as ‘Sociobiology’
July 21, 2008
Current Biology Covers The 60th Anniversary Of The Founding of Primatology in Japan
January 31, 2008
Non-Human Primate Tool Use: Gorillas Weilding Weapons, Macaques & Mirror Neurons
I’m scouring the American Journal of Primatology for a paper on gorillas using tools as weapons in the wild. National Geographic News says the paper is out, but I can’t find it anywhere in the early edition nor in the current issues. I’ll continue looking, but in the mean time here’s what we got to [...]
May 14, 2007
Female led infanticide among Sonso Chimpanzees
It seems that despite the wealth of information we know about primate behavior, especially chimpanzee behavior, we cannot fully grasp nor explain infanticide. In my opinion, primatology has not yet full investigated this unique and complicated behavior… well at least not until now. Before I get into the thick of new research on infanticide, let’s [...]
March 19, 2007
On primate behavior and tracing back the origins of morality
Personally, I have my own beef with sociobiology a.k.a. evolutionary psychology. I have yet to see it venture from a story telling, subjective science. But my issues don’t prevent me from acknowledging and respecting progressive work done in this subfield of behavioral studies and primatology.
I don’t know where Nick Wade truly stands about sociobiology, but [...]
