Robert Seyfarth (scientist)

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  • Cheney, D.L. & Seyfarth, R.M. (2007) Baboon Metaphysics: The Evolution of a Social Mind. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN   9780226102443
  • Smuts, B., Cheney, D., Seyfarth, R., Wrangham, R. & Struhsaker, T. (1987) Primate Societies. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN   9780226767161
  • Footnotes

    1. The title is based on a comment by Charles Darwin: "He who understands baboon would do more towards metaphysics than Locke." [5]

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    References

    1. 1 2 "March 2018 Curriculum Vitae" (PDF). 2018. Retrieved November 23, 2018.
    2. 1 2 3 Viegas, Jennifer (April 10, 2018). "Profile of Dorothy L. Cheney and Robert M. Seyfarth". PNAS. 115 (15): 3735–3738. Bibcode:2018PNAS..115.3735V. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1804145115 . PMC   5899502 . PMID   29581282. For their achievements, Cheney and Seyfarth were elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 1999 and 2012, respectively. They also received honorary doctorates in 2013 from the University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland, and jointly received the American Society of Primatology's Distinguished Primatologist Award in 2016.
    3. 1 2 3 "Robert M. Seyfarth". NAS. Retrieved November 20, 2018. Robert Seyfarth studies the social behavior, vocal communication, and cognition of nonhuman primates in their natural habitat. His goal is to understand the evolution of social complexity, mind, and behavior in monkeys and apes.
    4. 1 2 Searcy, William A (2016). "2016 Career Awards: Distinguished Animal Behaviorist Award". Animal Behavior Society Newsletter. Retrieved November 23, 2018. Cheney and Seyfarth went on to study many other aspects of communication, such as vocal comprehension learning, individual recognition, and deception. As a consequence of this body of work, Cheney and Seyfarth have come to be recognized as among the pre-eminent leaders not just in primate communication but in the field of animal communication as a whole.
    5. Wade, Nicholas (October 9, 2007). "How Baboons Think (Yes, Think)". New York Times. Retrieved November 22, 2018. 'Monkey society is governed by the same two general rules that governed the behavior of women in so many 19th-century novels,' Dr. Cheney and Dr. Seyfarth write. 'Stay loyal to your relatives (though perhaps at a distance, if they are an impediment), but also try to ingratiate yourself with the members of high-ranking families.'
    6. "Baboons Benefit From Strong Social Networks, Expert Says". University of Delaware. May 9, 2009. Retrieved November 22, 2018. Monkey communication expert Robert Seyfarth began his lecture on May 5, the kick-off of the University of Delaware's Year of Darwin celebration, with a true story, documented in 1961, about a female baboon that herded goats in an African village. The baboon knew all of the relationships between the goats so well that at night she would carry a bleating kid from one barn directly to its mother in another barn.
    7. "Seyfarth and Tishkoff elected to National Academy of Sciences". University of Pennsylvania. June 26, 2017. Retrieved November 22, 2018. Seyfarth, a professor of psychology who has retired but remains an active researcher, is a specialist in animal behavior and communication. With his wife, Dorothy Cheney, a professor of biology who was elected to the NAS in 2015 and who also recently retired, Seyfarth has conducted field studies of monkeys and apes in their natural habitats. Focusing on a troop of baboons in the Okavango Delta of Botswana, he has worked to clarify how nonhuman primate relationships, communication, and cognition differ from humans and to explore how and why these animals form close social bonds.
    8. "Drs. Cheney and Seyfarth Awarded the 2010 Cozzarelli Prize". University of Pennsylvania. Retrieved November 21, 2018. Drs. Dorothy Cheney and Robert Seyfarth's recent PNAS paper - Contingent cooperation between wild female baboons - was awarded the 2010 Cozzarelli prize for the best article in the area of Behavioral and Social Sciences.
    Robert Seyfarth
    Born (1948-02-16) February 16, 1948 (age 76)
    TitleProfessor of Psychology
    Spouse Dorothy Cheney
    Academic background
    Education Harvard College
    Alma mater Cambridge University
    Doctoral advisor Robert Hinde