Miscellaneous notes, topic outlines, and links
(The items with ** are most important)
- News report on the "bioethics" professor
(See also my (JL) comments on this issue in your readings, pp. 1-6.)
- Research project checklist
- Link to U of Washington primate database (joli,
beta)
- Spring, 99 references to
readings.
- **Video List and notes.
- **Timeline of primate events (week
01-99)
- Tree of
Life (All of it -- at U. of Arizona)
-
How Humans evolved! (link to textbook)
- Bipedalism
and evolution (U. of Illinois)
- info on Darwin and his times
(links)
- info
on
evolution of life (link)
- The Orangutan
Foundation (link)
- **Notes on evolution and Gould
(1977)
- **(2/15/99) Famous primate people
notes (While primates have been evolving for millions of years, only
in the last few hundred years have we had the abilities to reflect
upon
ourselves. Here is a quick overview of some of those reflecting
primates!)
- **(2/15/99) Notes on the brain( NOT updated
for 1999 as yet.)
- **(2/23/99) Notes on brain
development, revised slightly 2/23/99.
- Overview of primate sensory systems
(undergoing revision, 2/20/99)
- **(3/04/99) Intelligence notes
(to be
revised slightly. For now there are old notes and a brief outline
for March 11, 1999 that I will revise again incorporating more of the
old notes.)
- **(3/23/99)Notes from PC on Piaget &
tools
- **(3/23/99) Tools, (to be
revised
a bit by 3/23/99)
- **Outline of human language functions
- **Outline of human language development
- **Steps to the evolution of human
language
- **Can apes use a human language? (Includes
the Koko "online" transcript, 4/30/98)
- Notes on animal communication
(tentative,
4/20/99)
- **Notes on sex, parental investment, aggression
and cooperation, social structure and mating (4/23/99) Notice the
two links to papers on sex hormones in the Behavioral and Brain
Sciences journal.
The notes and links for 1999 are above this line
Other links of interest, Spring 1999
- Ape information
- Primate Information
Center (maintains virtually all references to primates; at the U of
Washington)
- Intelligence notes
1996 (some incorporated into 1998 but read for "big brain" info)
- Tool use outline
- Harry Harlow