Sioux Falls Feminists endorse Roots of Human Behavior
for explaining how our behavior today
is influenced by our primate past.

Roots of Human Behavior
Lectures by Professor Barbara J. King

Roots of Human Behavior (2001) - 12 lectures, 6 hours
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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?

Professor Barbara J. King is a biological anthropologist and Professor of Anthropology at The College of William and Mary. She received her M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Oklahoma. At William and Mary, Professor King has won four awards including the Thomas Jefferson Teaching Award. She received a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship and has published three books on anthropology, including The Information Continuum: Social Information Transfer in Monkeys, Apes, and Hominids.

12 Lectures - 30 minutes each

Roots of Human Behavior
Lectures by Professor Barbara J. King

Sioux Falls Feminists endorse Roots of Human Behavior
for explaining how our behavior today
is influenced by our primate past.