always looking for an evolutionary account for how we've come to be I don't think in the case of perversity there is such an evolutionary account I don't think for instance other animals other primates engage engage in perverse actions in the sense I'm interested in. They do good things, they do bad things, sometimes they they make mistakes, but but they aren't purposefullyperverse. Being purposely perverse is something that's uniquely human. Doesn't mean it's magic.
So sometimes we might say-- I might say careful or impulsive. Primates , there's, of course, lots and lots of studies on primates because their brains are more similar to ours, and the behavioral psychologistsand biologists like to really look at primates in comparison to people.
So sometimes we might say-- I might say careful or impulsive. Primates -- there's, of course, lots and lots of studies on primates because their brains are more similar to ours.And the behavioral psychologists and biologists like to really look at primates in comparison to people.
They'll fiercely defend intruders. Primates and humans are fiercely territorial.Intruders will be shot.
I'm not actually going to talk about hugs today, but that's a perfect example. Primates of almost all species, especially apes, of which we are-- as you well know, of which we are one-- are huggers.We hug for a variety of reasons.
get a high enough dose and they can be overcome so since this is hard humans primates we didn't evolve resistance and immunities to Venoms we could have tried for somethinglike speed which would get us moving faster and running away from a predator but we didn't evolve that either instead
unless you're a paleontologist that were thriving. They eventually would go extinct, but in doing so, they would spin out the ancestors of the modern groups that we all know, including our own group, the primates . It was about 10 million years after the extinction. So we're talking about 55, 56 million years ago as the Paleocene interval turned into the Eocene interval of time. That's when the modern mammals really start to make their presence known. And this happens at a time when the Earth is undergoing this moment of harsh, sudden climate change, global warming,
It is clear from doing the DNA paternity test that they are closely related to African rodents and primates . Okay, so how do African rodents and primates get to South America? Well, it seems like the only way is through one of these Hail Mary dispersals where there are some of these mammals, maybe after a storm, maybe they're on a raft of vegetation, sometimes big chunks of the coast, trees and grass and all kinds of stuff can be ripped apart, thrust out into the ocean, and
But dogs hate to be hugged. And primates hug all the time. So I'm actually going to start by showing you a video.
Now-- Sir, what was the age of the primates ? The primates actually vary in age. So there were infants-- so chimpanzee infants go up to age 5, and then juveniles and then adults.
Economic strategies. Suicide actually spreads through these things, so when a celebrity commits suicide, people will copy method. Other primates don't have this problem.
It was too big. And primates have them. And only amongst primates do you ever see this very characteristic S-shape, a sigmoid curvature.
like psychedelics, that you would to a complex human mind? snakes to primates , but we really don't. We don't have, and this is, we'll get into more of the stuff on the platonic space, but our
looking for the authenticity and the original thing. or other primates . But we can kind of understand that at a kind of level today.
Why da, da, da? So that gives primates their first advantage over other species.
their mind based on their behavior so I'm in a cognitive Science Program I'm looking around for the animal to study people study primates non-human primates right because that's the most likely animal we think evolutionarily to be similar to us cognitively um they play but then they go away and they hide from you and they
a world surrounded by snakes and these were largely constricting snakes but they were still one of the primary predators of primates so our ancestors were constantly trying to survive in a world with snakes and then about 60 million years ago the snakes up the
we chose sight is being a sort of poor choice of words but we ended up focusing on sight and primates have some of the most amazing eyes we don't really think about it right the fact that we can see objects in color in three dimensions the
fact that our eyes Face Forward which gives us the ability to have depth perception all of these changes that make it so that primates are really really incredible snake spotters and in fact if you show pictures pictures of snakes or videos of snakes to primates all sorts of primates humans on down the line they react with
if it hasn't been explained to you, if you haven't been in a parabolic flight, if you haven't done all these things. It's normal; we arboreal primates solve this problem. The moment you're weightless, you have to try to grab a
They're nocturnal animals. So they don't have the same requirements for visual communication that we have. So many anthropoid primates -- which is us-- monkeys, apes, humans-- we are very visual creatures. So visual communication is for breeding, for hanging out-- anything you can think of.
We're just primates after all.
They're not primates . They're not just people with funny skin and some crap on the bridge of their nose.
And now in primates they have data input as well.
book called "Games Primates Play-- An Undercover Investigation of the Evolution and Economics of
the way other primates deal with it.
And primates have them. And only amongst primates do you ever see this very characteristic S-shape, a sigmoid curvature. And at that particular moment in time, I happened to be the only world's expert on hominid clavicles.
But these primates have this curious thing that-- I mean they make gestures with their arms.
So I mean as primates we are sort of inherently hierarchical.
that we think they -- primates experience a broader range of possible happiness and suffering than insects.
Primates , there's, of course, lots and lots of studies on primates because their brains are more similar to ours, and the behavioral psychologistsand biologists like to really look at primates in comparison to people. And so with the rhesus monkeys and many different primates , they've identified about 15% to 20% are called uptight versus laid back.
been applied successfully in non-human primates .
We are the only hairless primates that actually makes detection of emotion and changes in the skin very easy.
We also are the only primates with whites of the eye, which makes the detection of eye
And he's discovered that primates have about 80% of human empathy equipment.
make it so that primates are really really incredible snake spotters and in fact if you show pictures pictures of snakes or videos of snakes to primates all sorts of primates humans on down the line they react with fear and they are able to spot snakes in ways that you would never even think
How utterly extraordinary that advanced primates can do something like that.
Goodall had her noble tool wielding primates .
So what we did is we just kind of did a shotgun approach to see what kind of vomeronasal receptor genes were present in lemurs, and particularly mouse lemurs. And they are the only non-human primates that we know of that get this kind of disease.
He's a representative 2 and 1/2 year old. So it's the three primates , and the humans are represented only by 2 and 1/2 year olds. We'll come back to that.
look more like than non-human primates .
It was a lot compared to other primates , who have somewhat less.
And they regard these curious primates , who come on-board and have to be, of course, immediately grabbed and corralled.
and biologists like to really look at primates in comparison to people. And so with the rhesus monkeys and many different primates , they've identified about 15% to 20% are called uptight versus laid back. And again, more and less responsive to their environment.
Primates -- there's, of course, lots and lots of studies on primates because their brains are more similar to ours.And the behavioral psychologists and biologists like to really look at primates in comparison to people. And so with the rhesus monkeys and many different primates , they've identified about 15 to 20% are called uptight
And the behavioral psychologists and biologists like to really look at primates in comparison to people. And so with the rhesus monkeys and many different primates , they've identified about 15 to 20% are called uptight versus laid back. And again, more and less responsive to their environment.
So I think you have to look to the primates , potentially to social instinct insects.
But I don't know why it should be in primates .
Distraction is really good. All this stuff comes out of our mouth because we're primates and humans.
Why da, da, da? So what gave us this advantage over these other primates ?