Primate Biology -- Anthro 3661-- Spring semester 2000
MW 8:30-10:00, McMillan 149 



Tab Rasmussen
McMillan B25
935-4844
Office hours: Tu-Th 10:30 am to noon 		 Anna Nekaris (teaching assistant)
McMillan B23
kabiela@artsci.wustl.edu
Office hours: Wed 10 am to noon 

Reading
Required textbook: The Natural History of the Primates (1994) by J. R. Napier and P. H. Napier 

(M.I.T. Press, paperback)
Required selections from: Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and Reviews, 

journal edited by J. G. Fleagle (Wiley Liss, Inc.) 
Optional supplementary textbooks:

Primate Ecology and Social Structure (1999) by Robert Sussman (Pearson Custom Publishing). 

Primate Anatomy (1999) by Friderun Ankel-Simons (Academic Press, 2nd Edition) 

Graded Assignments
(to be described in more detail in class) 



  Zoo phylogenies  15%  (due Feb. 7th) 
  Midterm exam 20% (due Mar. 1st)
  Theory papers 20% (due Mar. 20th)
  Field study bibliographies 25% (due Apr. 12th)
  Final exam  20% (due May 8th)

Weekly Schedule
Please check the syllabus carefully for possible conflicts with your personal schedule. To be fair to your classmates, there will be no make-up exams and no deadline extensions on papers or other assignments. 
If you will be gone during a deadline, please plan to have your assignment turned in well ahead of time. 
 
What is a primate?
Week 1--Jan 19.
Introduction
Week 2--Jan 24-26.
Reading: NAP pp. 7-12, EA Cartmill.
What is a primate?
Hypotheses of primate origins
Week 3--Jan 31-Feb 2.
Reading: NAP pp. 12-29; In place of EA reading.... ZOO VISITS
Overview of primate taxonomy -- prosimians
Overview of primate taxonomy -- anthropoids

Form, Behavior, and Function
Week 4--Feb 7-9. ZOO PHYLOGENIES DUE Mon. Feb. 7th.
Reading: NAP pp. 30-54; EA Lambert. 
Soft tissue anatomy 
Skeletal and dental systems
Week 5--Feb 14-16.
Reading: NAP pp. 55-59; EA Ross. 
DNA and other molecules
Life history and reproduction
Week 6--Feb 21-23.
Reading: NAP pp. 61-80; EA Rowell; EA Winterhalder. 
Group living 
Communication
Week 7--Feb 28-Mar 1.
Reading: EA Waal; EA Byrne. 
Cognition 
Midterm exam (Wed. Mar 1st)

Primate Diversity
Week 8--Mar 13-15.
Reading: NAP pp. 84-94; EA Sauther. 
Nocturnal Malagasy primates 
Diurnal Malagasy primates
Week 9--Mar 20-22. THEORY PAPERS DUE, Wed. Mar. 20th.
Reading: NAP pp. 94-106. 
Lorises and bushbabies 
Tarsiers
Week 10--Mar 27-29.
Reading: NAP pp. 107-128; EA Garber; EA Boinski; 
Marmosets and tamarins 
Cebid monkeys
Week 11--Apr 3-5.
Reading: NAP pp. 128-146; EA Disotell. 
Arboreal cercopithecine monkeys 
Terrestrial cercopithecine monkeys
Week 12--Apr 10-12; FIELD STUDY BIBLIOGRAPHIES DUE, Wed. Apr. 12th.
Reading: NAP pp. 147-166. 
Colobine monkeys 
Gibbons and orang-utans
Week 13--Apr 17-19.
Reading: NAP pp. 166-174; EA Doran; EA Sugiyama; EA White. 
Gorillas 
Chimpanzees

Primates in perspective
Week 14--Apr 24-26.
Reading: NAP pp. 175-186; EA Boesch-Anderson; EA Wright. 
Primate conservation 
Primatology as anthropology

Final exam--May 8th, 1-3 pm 

Readings from "Evolutionary Anthropology" 
(these are available as a bound reader from Hi-Tec Copy Center, 375 N. Big Bend Blvd.)

Boesch-Achermann, Hedwige, and Boesch, Cristophe (1994) Hominization in the rainforest: the chimpanzee's piece of the puzzle. Vol. 3(1): 9-16. 

Boinski, Sue (1999) The social organizations of squirrel monkeys: implications for ecological models of social evolution. Vol. 8(3): 101-112. 

Byrne, Richard W. (1996) Machiavellian intelligence. Vol. 5(5): 172-180. 

Cartmill, Matt (1992) New views on primate origins. Vol. 1(3): 105-111. 

Disotell, Todd R. (1996) The phylogeny of Old World monkeys. Vol. 5(1): 18-24. 

Doran, Diane M., and McNeilage, Alastair (1998) Gorilla ecology and behavior. Vol. 6(4): 120-131. 

Garber, Paul A. (1997) One for all and breeding for one: cooperation and competition as a tamarin reproductive strategy. Vol. 5(6): 187-199. 

Lambert, Joanna E. (1998) Primate digestion: interactions among anatomy, physiology, and feeding ecology. Vol. 7(1): 8-20. 

Ross, Caroline (1998) Primate life histories. Vol. 6(2): 54-63. 

Rowell, Thelma E. (1993) Reification of social systems. Vol. 2(4): 135-137. 

Sauther, Michelle L., Sussman, Robert W., and Gould, Lisa (1999) The socioecology of the ringtailed lemur: thirty-five years of research. Vol. 8(4): 120-132. 

Sugiyama, Y. (1997) Social tradition and the use of tool-composites by wild chimpanzees.Vol. 6(1):23-27. 

Waal, Frans B. M. de (1992) Intentional deception in primates. Vol. 1(3): 86-92. 

White, Francis J. (1996) Pan panicus 1973-1996: twenty-three years of field research. Vol. 5(1): 11-17. 

Winterhalder, Bruce (1996) Social foraging and the behavioral ecology of intragroup resource transfers. Vol. 5(2): 46-57. 

Wright, Patricia (1992) Primate ecology, rainforest conservation, and economic development: building a national park in Madagascar. Vol. 1(1): 25-33.