Roots of Human Behavior

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Barbara J. King

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00. Professor Bio King.mp4

01:20

01. The Four Facets of Anthropology.mp4

29:57

02. Social Bonds and Family Ties.mp4

29:58

03. The Journey Away From Mom.mp4

30:37

04. Males and Females Really So Different.mp4

30:04

05. Sex And Reproduction.mp4

30:07

06. Tool Making - Of Hammers And Anvils.mp4

29:58

07. Social Learning And Teaching.mp4

29:55

08. Culture - What Is It Whos Got It.mp4

30:15

09. Dynamics Of Social Communication.mp4

29:56

10. Do Great Apes Use Language.mp4

30:33

11. Highlights Of Human Evolution.mp4

30:25

12. Exploring And Conserving A Legacy.mp4

29:42

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While human behavior is usually studied from the historical perspective of a few hundred years, anthropologists consider deeper causes for the ways we act. In this course, anthropologist Barbara J. King uses her wealth of research experience to open a window of understanding for you into the legacy left by our primate past.

By looking for roots of human behavior in the behavior of monkeys, apes, and human ancestors, you explore such questions as:

Are language and technology unique to humans?
Have human love and loyalty developed from our primate cousins?
Do ways in which human males and females relate to each other come from our primate past?
Have we inherited a biological tendency for aggression?

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Barbara J. King

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Dr. Barbara J. King is a biological anthropologist and Chancellor Professor of Anthropology at The College of William and Mary in Virginia. She earned her B.A. in Anthropology from Douglass College, Rutgers University, and her M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Oklahoma. Professor King's research interests concern the social communication of the great apes, the closest living relatives to humans. She has studied ape and monkey behavior in Gabon, Kenya, and at the Language Research Center at Georgia State University. The recipient of a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, she has published three books on anthropology, including The Information Continuum: Social Information Transfer in Monkeys, Apes, and Hominids. At William and Mary, Professor King has won four teaching awards: The William and Mary Alumni Association Teaching Award, the college's Thomas Jefferson Teaching Award, the Virginia State Council of Higher Education for Virginia's Outstanding Faculty Award, and the designation of University Professor for Teaching Excellence, 1999-2002.

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