Monkey style: Primate Social Behavior

Harvard FAS

This course provides an overview of primate social behavior and will cover topics such as kinship, social structure, friendship, competition, cooperation, dominance, development, mating systems, parental care, inter-group relationships, social learning, and applications to humans. Over the course of the semester we will attempt to address fundamental questions about the Primate order from three perspectives:Evolutionary perspective. How do primate species differ from one another? What are the…