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?