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Nonhuman Primate learning: The Importance of learning from an Evolutionary Perspective
Author(s) -
Pokier Frank E.,
Hussey L. Kaye
Publication year - 1982
Publication title -
anthropology and education quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.531
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 1548-1492
pISSN - 0161-7761
DOI - 10.1525/aeq.1982.13.2.05x1830j
Subject(s) - social learning , perspective (graphical) , kinship , cognitive science , adaptation (eye) , active learning (machine learning) , adaptive value , epistemology , psychology , sociology , anthropology , evolutionary biology , biology , artificial intelligence , computer science , pedagogy , philosophy , neuroscience
Learning is adaptive, and throughout their evolutionary history primates have been programmed for ease of learning. Comparative studies of learning are of limited value if they ignore the biological referrent. Primates have a potential for learning broad sets of new tasks. Age, sex, social structure, and kinship relationships affect the learning process. An anthropology of learning must be an anthropology of the evolution of learning. This perspective raises a number of research questions for future investigation. ADAPTATION, CROSS‐SPECIFIC, EVOLUTION, LEARNING, PRIMATES.