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Grooming the Space Monkey

Author : Christopher Tremper
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780578246987
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (469 download)

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Download or read book Grooming the Space Monkey written by Christopher Tremper and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-22 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Human beings are capable of realizing an incredibly bright future, but we are an immature species (adolescents really) and our current trajectory is one leading to a fairly dismal end. While we are well equipped to elevate one another, the sad fact is that we are not incentivized, as individuals or collectively, to do so. Despite our laws and loosely imposed moral codes, we simply do not defy our incentives. Our incentives shape the way we treat one another. They shape the way we view on another. They shape our utilization of our planet. They shape our trajectory. The deep flaws in our incentives are not difficult to see, but we are not incentivized to look at them. We need to change that. We need examine them and acknowledge: How our current economic systems are ill-suited for our long-term survival and how they can be altered to serve rather than condemn us. How we have failed to craft an effective, one-size-fits-all moral code and reassess how we can do so. How our spirituality is distinct from religion and its vital importance in guiding us through our technological advancement. There is hope. We have enormous potential. We have an amazing planet. We have each other, but we need to incentivize ourselves to take advantage of our potential rather than to continue taking advantage of each other. There is a simple yet massive distinction between those things. We surely can do it, but we have to first see why it has to be done. And done soon... Grooming the Space Monkey attempts to help with that. It puts our absurdity in plain sight (and reasonably plain English) then urges us to rethink what we've come expect from each other and our cultures. It is time to grow up. We may be these great teens with all the potential in the world, but it doesn't mean a whole lot while driving 150mph... drunk and stoned... in the wrong lane... at midnight... with the headlights off.

Grooming, Gossip, and the Evolution of Language

Author : Robin Ian MacDonald Dunbar
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674363366
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (633 download)

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Download or read book Grooming, Gossip, and the Evolution of Language written by Robin Ian MacDonald Dunbar and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here, the author examines gossip as a form of 'verbal grooming', and as a means of strengthening relationships. He challenges the idea that language developed during male activities such as hunting, and that it was actually amongst women that it evolved.

Developing a Social Psychology of Monkeys and Apes

Author : John Chadwick-Jones
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780863778216
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (782 download)

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Book Synopsis Developing a Social Psychology of Monkeys and Apes by : John Chadwick-Jones

Download or read book Developing a Social Psychology of Monkeys and Apes written by John Chadwick-Jones and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2000-03-02 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aim of this text is to draw attention to the exciting progress of contemporary studies of the social psychology of monkeys and apes. It is written with a clear style which should invite interest from a wide range of social scientists. The relatedness of humans and non-human primates that is usually considered in its genetic forms is followed through into the complex social tactics of monkeys and apes. The focus of the book is on the latest research as it has developed out of earlier classic studies. The current wave of researchers working on social topics is especially emphasised. This book will be of particular interest to primatologists, ethologists, anthropologists, zoologists, social psychologists, and students of social cognition and social interaction. For students, the appendices provide useful information on the variety of social structures of Old World and New World monkeys and apes.

The Monkey Wars

Author : Deborah Blum
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199880182
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)

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Download or read book The Monkey Wars written by Deborah Blum and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1995-12-14 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The controversy over the use of primates in research admits of no easy answers. We have all benefited from the medical discoveries of primate research--vaccines for polio, rubella, and hepatitis B are just a few. But we have also learned more in recent years about how intelligent apes and monkeys really are: they can speak to us with sign language, they can even play video games (and are as obsessed with the games as any human teenager). And activists have also uncovered widespread and unnecessarily callous treatment of animals by researchers (in 1982, a Silver Spring lab was charged with 17 counts of animal cruelty). It is a complex issue, made more difficult by the combative stance of both researchers and animal activists. In The Monkey Wars, Deborah Blum gives a human face to this often caustic debate--and an all-but-human face to the subjects of the struggle, the chimpanzees and monkeys themselves. Blum criss-crosses America to show us first hand the issues and personalities involved. She offers a wide-ranging, informative look at animal rights activists, now numbering some twelve million, from the moderate Animal Welfare Institute to the highly radical Animal Liberation Front (a group destructive enough to be placed on the FBI's terrorist list). And she interviews a wide variety of researchers, many forced to conduct their work protected by barbed wire and alarm systems, men and women for whom death threats and hate mail are common. She takes us to Roger Fouts's research center in Ellensburg, Washington, where we meet five chimpanzees trained in human sign language, and we visit LEMSIP, a research facility in New York State that has no barbed wire, no alarms--and no protesters chanting outside--because its director, Jan Moor-Jankowski, listens to activists with respect and treats his animals humanely. And along the way, Blum offers us insights into the many side-issues involved: the intense battle to win over school kids fought by both sides, and the danger of transplanting animal organs into humans. "As it stands now," Blum concludes, "the research community and its activist critics are like two different nations, nations locked in a long, bitter, seemingly intractable political standoff....But if you listen hard, there really are people on both sides willing to accept and work within the complex middle. When they can be freely heard, then we will have progressed to another place, beyond this time of hostilities." In The Monkey Wars, Deborah Blum gives these people their voice.

Mind the Monkeys!

Author : Lawrence Whiting
Publisher : Booksmango
ISBN 13 : 1641531851
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (415 download)

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Download or read book Mind the Monkeys! written by Lawrence Whiting and published by Booksmango. This book was released on 2018-06-12 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lawrence Whiting has come to know the Thai monkeys of Phana very well in the seven years he has been running the Phana Monkey Project with his wife, Pensri. One of the things he has enjoyed most is the opportunity to introduce his monkey friends to so many Thai people as well as people from all over the world. He hopes that this book will enable even more people to appreciate these lovely creatures. After the monkeys had got comfortable with me… they would come up and touch my arm and then run away again. The mothers would walk up to me and set their babies down to play, and large males would bring their food and eat right next to me. They had let me into their world and I was forever changed. Chris Love, Phana Monkey Project Volunteer Observing them is interesting to see their behaviour and to see how much alike we are! Rita Cerdiera, PMP volunteer Animals have feelings, there is no doubt. Respect the monkeys, respect wildlife. Christel Gomes, PMP volunteer

The Socioecology of Adult Female Patas Monkeys and Vervets in Kenya

Author : Jill Pruetz
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317344081
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book The Socioecology of Adult Female Patas Monkeys and Vervets in Kenya written by Jill Pruetz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-07-22 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For upper-level and/or graduate level Primatology or Biological Anthropology courses. Socioecology of Adult Female Patas Monkeys and Vervet in Kenya, East Africa provides students with a glimpse into a research project from start to finish. It discusses basic issues of studying primates and explores one of the major theories that has defined primatology for several decades. This text not only contributes detail on primate behavior, but also on the ecological variables that influence primate behavior. These are often difficult to measure, but the unique environment at the study site enabled the author to address questions that are much more difficult to answer elsewhere.

Mahale Chimpanzees

Author : Michio Nakamura
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316368432
Total Pages : 797 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (163 download)

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Download or read book Mahale Chimpanzees written by Michio Nakamura and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-09-10 with total page 797 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long-term ecological research studies are rare and invaluable resources, particularly when they are as thoroughly documented as the Mahale Mountain Chimpanzee Project in Tanzania. Directed by Toshisada Nishida from 1965 until 2011, the project continues to yield new and fascinating findings about our closest neighbour species. In a fitting tribute to Nishida's contribution to science, this book brings together fifty years of research into one encyclopaedic volume. Alongside previously unpublished data, the editors include new translations of Japanese writings throughout the book to bring previously inaccessible work to non-Japanese speakers. The history and ecology of the site, chimpanzee behaviour and biology, and ecological management are all addressed through firsthand accounts by Mahale researchers. The authors highlight long-term changes in behaviour, where possible, and draw comparisons with other chimpanzee sites across Africa to provide an integrative view of chimpanzee research today.

Japanese Monkeys

Author : Stuart A. Altmann
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Japanese Monkeys written by Stuart A. Altmann and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Neurobiology of Grooming Behavior

Author : Allan V. Kalueff
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139483897
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book Neurobiology of Grooming Behavior written by Allan V. Kalueff and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-05-20 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grooming is among the most evolutionary ancient and highly represented behaviours in many animal species. It represents a significant proportion of an animal's total activity and between 30-50% of their waking hours. Recent research has demonstrated that grooming is regulated by specific brain circuits and is sensitive to stress, as well as to pharmacologic compounds and genetic manipulation, making it ideal for modelling affective disorders that arise as a function of stressful environments, such as stress and post-traumatic stress disorder. Over a series of 12 chapters that introduce and explicate the field of grooming research and its significance for the human and animal brain, this book covers the breadth of grooming animal models while simultaneously providing sufficient depth in introducing the concepts and translational approaches to grooming research. Written primarily for graduates and researchers within the neuroscientific community.

Animals in Space

Author : Colin Burgess
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 0387496785
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (874 download)

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Download or read book Animals in Space written by Colin Burgess and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-07-05 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is as a detailed, but highly readable and balanced account of the history of animal space flights carried out by all nations, but principally the United States and the Soviet Union. It explores the ways in which animal high-altitude and space flight research impacted on space flight biomedicine and technology, and how the results - both successful and disappointing - allowed human beings to then undertake that same hazardous journey with far greater understanding and confidence. This complete and authoritative book will undoubtedly become the ultimate authority on animal space flights.

Socioecology and Psychology of Primates

Author : Russell H. Tuttle
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110803836
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Socioecology and Psychology of Primates written by Russell H. Tuttle and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-06-03 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Girl With No Name

Author : Marina Chapman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1639360999
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (393 download)

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Download or read book The Girl With No Name written by Marina Chapman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-11-15 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1954, in a remote mountain village in South America, a little girl was abducted. She was four years old. Marina Chapman was stolen from her housing estate and abandoned deep in the Colombian jungle. That she survived is a miracle. Two days later, half-drugged, terrified, and starving, she came upon a troop of capuchin monkeys. Acting entirely on instinct, she tried to do what they did: copying their actions she slowly learned to fend for herself. So begins the story of her five years among the monkeys, during which time she gradually became feral; lost the ability to speak, lost all inhibition, lost any sense of being human, replacing human society with the social mores her new simian family. But society was eventually to reclaim her. At age ten she was discovered by a pair of hunters who took her to the lawless Colombian city of Cucuta where, in exchange for a parrot, they sold her to a brothel. When she learned that she was to be groomed for prostitution, she made her plans to escape. But her adventure was not over yet... In the vein of Slumdog Millionaire and City of God, this rousing story of a lost child who overcomes the dangers of the wild to finally reclaim her life will astonish readers everywhere.

Herding Monkeys to Paradise

Author : John Knight
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004187936
Total Pages : 649 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Herding Monkeys to Paradise written by John Knight and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-05-27 with total page 649 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a detailed study of monkey parks in Japan. It describes how the parks manage free-ranging macaque troops for touristic display and examines the various problems that arise, as well as proposals for park reform.

The New Evolutionary Sociology

Author : Jonathan Turner
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351173863
Total Pages : 407 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)

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Download or read book The New Evolutionary Sociology written by Jonathan Turner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-03-09 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For decades, evolutionary analysis was overlooked or altogether ignored by sociologists. Fears and biases persisted nearly a century after Auguste Comte gave the discipline its name, as did concerns that its effect would only reduce sociology to another discipline – whether biology, psychology, or economics. Worse, apprehension that the application of evolutionary theory would encourage heightened perceptions of racism, sexism, ethnocentrism and reductionism pervaded. Turner and Machalek argue instead for a new embrace of biology and evolutionary analysis. Sociology, from its very beginnings in the early 19th century, has always been concerned with the study of evolution, particularly the transformation of societies from simple to ever-more complex forms. By comprehensively reviewing the original ways that sociologists applied evolutionary theory and examining the recent renewal and expansion of these early approaches, the authors confront the challenges posed by biology, neuroscience, and psychology to distinct evolutionary approaches within sociology. They emerge with key theoretical and methodological discoveries that demonstrate the critical – and compelling – case for a dramatically enriched sociology that incorporates all forms of comparative evolutionary analysis to its canon and study of sociocultural phenomena.

The Missing Lemur Link

Author : Ivan Norscia
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 131657797X
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book The Missing Lemur Link written by Ivan Norscia and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-06-09 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lemurs share a common distant ancestor with humans. Following their own evolutionary pathway, lemurs provide the ideal model to shed light on the behavioural traits of primates including conflict management, communication strategies and society building and how these aspects of social living relate to those found in the anthropoid primates. Adopting a comparative approach throughout, lemur behaviour is cross-examined with that of monkeys, apes and humans. This book reviews and expands upon the newest fields of research in lemur behavioural biology, including recent analytical approaches that have so far been limited to studies of haplorrhine primates. Different methodological approaches are harmonised in this volume to break conceptual walls between both primate taxa and different disciplines. Through a focus on the methodologies behind lemur behaviour and social interactions, future primate researchers will be encouraged to produce directly comparable results.

Instinct, Environment and Behaviour (Psychology Revivals)

Author : Stephen Lea
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 1317531698
Total Pages : 163 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)

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Download or read book Instinct, Environment and Behaviour (Psychology Revivals) written by Stephen Lea and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2015-03-27 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What can the evolution of animal behaviour tell us about human behaviour? More specifically, how good an account of animal behaviour can we give in terms of evolution, and how do humans fit in with or deviate from the pattern established for other animals? The biological approach to the study of animal behaviour has important implications for psychology, but it is distinctly different. Originally published in 1984, this book provides a basic introduction to biological theories about behaviour, from the classic ethological tradition of Lorenz and Tinbergen to the later sociobiological approach. The principles of experimentation and research involved are assessed critically, especially with regard to their implications for the study of human behaviour. Written specifically for those with little biological knowledge, this book will still be of interest to students of biology and introductory psychology alike.

American Popular Culture in the Era of Terror

Author : Jesse Kavadlo
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book American Popular Culture in the Era of Terror written by Jesse Kavadlo and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2015-09-15 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together the most popular genres of the 21st century, this book argues that Americans have entered a new era of narrative dominated by the fear—and wish fulfillment—of the breakdown of authority and terror itself. Bringing together disparate and popular genres of the 21st century, American Popular Culture in the Era of Terror: Falling Skies, Dark Knights Rising, and Collapsing Cultures argues that popular culture has been preoccupied by fantasies and narratives dominated by the anxiety —and, strangely, the wish fulfillment—that comes from the breakdowns of morality, family, law and order, and storytelling itself. From aging superheroes to young adult dystopias, heroic killers to lustrous vampires, the figures of our fiction, film, and television again and again reveal and revel in the imagery of terror. Kavadlo's single-author, thesis-driven book makes the case that many of the novels and films about September 11, 2001, have been about much more than terrorism alone, while popular stories that may not seem related to September 11 are deeply connected to it. The book examines New York novels written in response to September 11 along with the anti-heroes of television and the resurgence of zombies and vampires in film and fiction to draw a correlation between Kavadlo's "Era of Terror" and the events of September 11, 2001. Geared toward college students, graduate students, and academics interested in popular culture, the book connects multiple topics to appeal to a wide audience.