From hamel at primate.wisc.edu Mon Nov 3 09:00:03 2008 From: hamel at primate.wisc.edu (Ray Hamel) Date: Mon Nov 3 09:00:15 2008 Subject: [PS] Upcoming Primate Meetings Message-ID: <200811031500.mA3F03N5024334@white.primate.wisc.edu> Upcoming events from the Primate Info Net Meetings Calendar http://pin.primate.wisc.edu/news/calendar If you have an event you would like to list here, please contact Ray Hamel at hamel@primate.wisc.edu. ASSOCIATION OF PRIMATE VETERINARIANS Dates: November 5, 2008 - November 8, 2008 Sponsor: Association of Primate Veterinarians Location: Indianapolis, Indiana Web Site: http://www.primatevets.org/ 59TH AALAS NATIONAL MEETING Dates: November 9, 2008 - November 13, 2008 Sponsor: AALAS Location: Indianapolis, Indiana FIELDWORK PRIMATOLOGY SYMPOSIUM - SIMPOSI DE PRIMATOLOGIA DE CAMP Date: November 19, 2008 Sponsor: University of Barcelona, Spain Location: University of Barcelona, Spain Web Site: http://www.microwear.eu/programa_simposi_primatologia.pdf CONFERENCES CYCLE: PRIMATES... A PRIORITY FOR WORLD WIDE CONSERVATION Dates: November 26, 2008 - November 29, 2008 Sponsor: Guadalajara Zoo, Wild Fauna and Companion Animal Mexican Institute and Autonomous University of Guadalajara Location: Guadalajara Zoo, Autonomous University of Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico SCIENTISTS CENTER FOR ANIMAL WELFARE (SCAW) WINTER CONFERENCE Dates: December 1, 2008 - December 2, 2008 Sponsor: Scientists Center for Animal Welfare (SCAW) Location: San Antonio, TX Web Site: http://www.scaw.com/conference.htm PRIMATE SOCIETY OF GREAT BRITAIN WINTER MEETING 2008 Date: December 3, 2008 Sponsor: Primate Society of Great Britain Location: Zoological Society of London, Regent's Park, London Web Site: http://www.psgb.org/Meetings/Winter2008.htm SCAW WINTER CONFERENCE: ANIMAL BEHAVIOR, WELFARE AND SCIENCE: IACUC ROLES Dates: December 8, 2008 - December 9, 2008 Sponsor: Scientists Center for Animal Welfare Location: Menger Hotel, San Antonio, TX Web Site: http://www.scaw.com/Winter%202008%20Conference.pdf THE 26TH ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM FOR NONHUMAN PRIMATE MODELS FOR AIDS Dates: December 9, 2008 - December 12, 2008 Sponsor: Wisconsin National Primate Research Center and Caribbean Primate Research Center Location: The Ritz-Carlton, San Juan Hotel, San Juan, Puerto Rico Web Site: http://nhp2008.primate.wisc.edu 11TH MEETING OF THE GERMAN SOCIETY OF PRIMATOLOGY Dates: February 24, 2009 - February 26, 2009 Sponsor: University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover Location: Hannover, Germany Web Site: http://www.gfp2009.de XIX MEETING OF THE ITALIAN PRIMATOLOGICAL SOCIETY (API) Dates: April 1, 2009 - April 3, 2009 Sponsor: Italian Primatological Society Location: Asti, Italy Web Site: http://www-1.unipv.it/webbio/api/api.htm PROSIMIAN WORKSHOP Dates: April 30, 2009 - May 2, 2009 Sponsor: Cleveland Metroparks Zoo Location: Cleveland Metroparks Zoo, Cleveland, Ohio Web Site: http://www.clemetzoo.com/prosimianworkshop/ THE PRIMATE MIND: BUILT TO CONNECT WITH OTHER MINDS Dates: June 4, 2009 - June 7, 2009 Sponsor: Ettore Majorana Foundation and Centre for Scientific Culture; International School of Ethology, Ca' Foscari, Location: Erice (Sicily), Italy Web Site: http://www.emory.edu/LIVING_LINKS/primate_mind/ 3ND CONGRESS OF THE EUROPEAN FEDERATION FOR PRIMATOLOGY (EFP) Dates: August 12, 2009 - August 15, 2009 Sponsor: Anthropological Institute & Museum of the University of Zürich, Switzerland Location: University of Zürich, Switzerland Web Site: http://www.aim.uzh.ch/EFP.html 2009 ORANGUTAN SSP HUSBANDRY WORKSHOP Dates: August 31, 2009 - September 2, 2009 Sponsor: Zoo Atlanta Location: Zoo Atlanta VTH INTERNATIONAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL CONGRESS OF ALES HRDLICKA 'QUO VADIS HOMO…SOCIETAS HUMANA? Dates: September 2, 2009 - September 5, 2009 Sponsor: Charles University in Prague, Czech Anthropological Society Location: Prague and Humpolec, Czech Republic Web Site: http://www.anthropology-hrdlicka2009.cz 32ND MEETING OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF PRIMATOLOGISTS Dates: September 18, 2009 - September 21, 2009 Sponsor: American Society of Primatologists Location: Bahia Resort Hotel, San Diego, CA Web Site: http://www.asp.org/asp2009/index.htm NEOTROPICAL PRIMATE HUSBANDRY, RESEARCH, AND CONSERVATION CONFERENCE Dates: October 13, 2009 - October 15, 2009 Sponsor: Brookfield Zoo Location: Brookfield Zoo, 3300 Gold Road, Brookfield, IL INTERNATIONAL PRIMATOLOGICAL SOCIETY XXIII CONGRESS Dates: September 12, 2010 - September 18, 2010 Sponsor: International Primatological Society Location: Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan Web Site: http://www.ips2010.jp/ ------ Meetings Calendar on the web: http://pin.primate.wisc.edu/news/calendar ------ From janettewallis at sbcglobal.net Mon Nov 3 11:02:49 2008 From: janettewallis at sbcglobal.net (Janette Wallis) Date: Mon Nov 3 10:05:08 2008 Subject: [PS] Calling all interested in African primates In-Reply-To: <200811031500.mA3F03N5024334@white.primate.wisc.edu> References: <200811031500.mA3F03N5024334@white.primate.wisc.edu> Message-ID: <006101c93dd6$11920e10$34b62a30$@net> Dear P-Sers: Please see the following announcement about the first regional conference of the Society for Conservation Biology's Africa Section. We're hoping to have a contingent of folks on hand who are specifically interested in African PRIMATES.....so, please spread the word. **************************************************************** The Ecological Laboratory Unit of the University of Ghana in collaboration with the Africa Section of the Society for Conservation Biology and Living Earth Foundation Ghana wish to announce the 1st Africa Regional Conservation Science - Policy Conference to be held at the University of Ghana, Legon, Accra Ghana from January 28 - 30, 2009. Call for Abstracts is now opened: http://www2.ug.edu.gh/ecolabconference/ or Download Abstract Submission Form in the Attachment and follow the Submission Guidelines. The Deadline for Submission is November 04, 2008 (But this may be extended????) The conference email through which all communications must be channeled is: scbafrica2009@conbio.org Kindly spread the Call and Share with Colleagues. LOC Accra, Ghana From sherrow at ohio.edu Mon Nov 3 13:28:48 2008 From: sherrow at ohio.edu (Hogan) Date: Mon Nov 3 13:27:45 2008 Subject: [PS] Hayaki contact Message-ID: Hello all, does anyone have full contact information for professor Hayaki? Hogan M. Sherrow, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Dept of Sociology & Anthropology Ohio University 103 Bentley Annex Athens, OH 45701 Phone: (740) 597-2765 Fax: (740) 593-1365 From hamel at primate.wisc.edu Tue Nov 4 00:00:03 2008 From: hamel at primate.wisc.edu (Ray Hamel) Date: Tue Nov 4 00:00:17 2008 Subject: [PS] Recent Primate-Jobs postings Message-ID: <200811040600.mA4603uR007697@white.primate.wisc.edu> The following listings were recently posted on Primate-Jobs http://pin.primate.wisc.edu/jobs --POSITIONS AVAILABLE-- Post-doc in primate behavioral research, University of Chicago http://pin.primate.wisc.edu/jobs/listings/1364 Trapping assistant, MPI EVA http://pin.primate.wisc.edu/jobs/listings/1360 Field assistant, Bristol Zoo Gardens http://pin.primate.wisc.edu/jobs/listings/1369 Veterinarian, Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research http://pin.primate.wisc.edu/jobs/listings/1367 Field Research Assistant: Olive Baboons, Nigeria, Roehampton University http://pin.primate.wisc.edu/jobs/listings/1368 --POSITIONS WANTED-- Laboratory work http://pin.primate.wisc.edu/jobs/listings/1361 Non-human primate behavior, ecology, and sociality http://pin.primate.wisc.edu/jobs/listings/1362 Behavioral Research http://pin.primate.wisc.edu/jobs/listings/1363 ------ Primate-Jobs on the web: http://pin.primate.wisc.edu/jobs Primate-Jobs via RSS feed: http://pin.primate.wisc.edu/rss/jobs.xml Primate-Jobs is maintained by the Lawrence Jacobsen (WPRC) Library at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. WPRC programs are supported by grant numbers RR000167 and RR015311, National Primate Centers Program, National Center for Research Resources, the National Institutes of Health. Note that the responsibility for conforming to local, state, regional and national employment listing regulations lies with the listing organization. The Wisconsin Primate Research Center, the University of Wisconsin, and the National Center for Research Resources (National Institutes of Health), will not be held liable for misinformation in, or consequences resulting from, postings to Primate-Jobs. Inclusion of a job listing does not imply endorsement of the listing organization. ------ From brown at primate.wisc.edu Tue Nov 4 09:00:04 2008 From: brown at primate.wisc.edu (Joanne Brown) Date: Tue Nov 4 09:02:00 2008 Subject: [PS] New books at the Jacobsen Primate Library -- October 2008 Message-ID: <200811041500.mA4F04qG014449@white.primate.wisc.edu> The following acquisitions have been processed in the Wisconsin Primate Library in the past month. If you are looking for information about acquiring any of the titles, feel free to contact me directly and I'll help you if I can. If you are interested in borrowing any of these titles, please contact your local library (whether public, private, or part of an educational institution) to request the item through interlibrary loan. Please do not contact me directly about borrowing items from this library unless you have no other source. Thank you! To view acquisitions from previous months, please see: http://library.primate.wisc.edu/collections/newbooks.php --Books Added October 2008-- Carroll, Scott P.; Fox, Charles W., eds. Conservation biology: evolution in action. Oxford Univ Press, 2008. ISBN 9780195306781. Fraser, David. Understanding animal welfare: the science in its cultural context. Blackwell Publishing, 2008. ISBN 9781405136952. Geschwind, Norman; Galaburda, Albert M. Cerebral lateralization: biological mechanisms, associations and pathology. MIT Press, 1987. ISBN 0262071010. Kennard, Christopher; Leigh, R. John, eds. Using eye movements as an experimental probe of brain function: a symposium in honor of Jean Büttner-Ennever. Elsevier, 2008. ISBN 9780444531636. King, Andrew B. Website optimization. O'Reilly Media, 2008. ISBN 0596515081. Morisseau-Leroy, Nirva; Solomon, Martin K.; Momplaisir, Gerald P. Oracle 8i SQLJ programming. Osborne/McGraw Hill, 2000. ISBN 0072121602. Pogue, David. iPhone: the missing manual, 2nd ed. O'Reilly Media, 2008. ISBN 9780596521677. Raboy, Becky Ellen. The ecology and behavior of wild golden-headed lion tamarins (Leontopithecus chrysomelas). 2002. Reinhardt, Viktor.; Reinhardt, Annie. Environmental enrichment and refinement for nonhuman primates kept in research laboratories: a photographic documentation and literature review, 3rd ed. Animal Welfare Institute, 2008. ISBN 9780938414926. http://www.awionline.org/pubs/online_pub/EE08.pdf Robinson, John G. Vocal regulation of spacing in the titi monkey Callicebus moloch. 1977. Urman, Scott. Oracle 8i advanced PL/SQL programming. Osborne/McGraw Hill, 2000. ISBN 0072121467. The use of non-human primates in research: a working group chaired by Sir David Weatherall. Sponsored by The Academy of Medical Sciences, the Medical Research Council, the Royal Society, and Wellcome Trust., 2006. http://www.mrc.ac.uk/consumption/idcplg?IdcService=GET_FILE&dID=9323&dDocName=MRC003440&allowInterrupt=1 ------ New Books list on the web: http://library.primate.wisc.edu/collections/newbooks.php New Books list via RSS feed: http://library.primate.wisc.edu/rss/books.xml ------ -- Joanne Brown, Technical Services Librarian Jacobsen Library and Information Service Wisconsin National Primate Research Center 1220 Capitol Ct. Madison, WI 53715-1237 Phone: 608-263-3512 Fax: 608-265-2067 Email: brown@primate.wisc.edu From hamel at primate.wisc.edu Wed Nov 5 14:00:03 2008 From: hamel at primate.wisc.edu (Ray Hamel) Date: Wed Nov 5 14:00:15 2008 Subject: [PS] Recent Primate News (November 5, 2008) Message-ID: <200811052000.mA5K032C007803@white.primate.wisc.edu> The following links were recently posted on Primates in the News http://pin.primate.wisc.edu/news/inthenews/ No more monkey business in name of research (Scotsman; November 4, 2008) http://pin.primate.wisc.edu/scripts/external.php?link=8350 ------ Primates in the News on the web: http://pin.primate.wisc.edu/news/inthenews/ Primates in the News via RSS feed: http://pin.primate.wisc.edu/rss/news.xml Primates in the News is maintained by the Lawrence Jacobsen (WPRC) Library at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. WPRC programs are supported by grant numbers RR000167 and RR015311, National Primate Centers Program, National Center for Research Resources, the National Institutes of Health. Note that the Wisconsin Primate Research Center provides Primates in the News as an informational service. We are not responsible for the content of linked sites, nor does inclusion of a link imply endorsement of the views expressed in that content. ------ From jgrehan at sciencebuff.org Wed Nov 5 16:00:03 2008 From: jgrehan at sciencebuff.org (John Grehan) Date: Wed Nov 5 15:58:47 2008 Subject: [PS] Hominid origins In-Reply-To: <200811052000.mA5K032C007803@white.primate.wisc.edu> References: <200811052000.mA5K032C007803@white.primate.wisc.edu> Message-ID: <26DA12164B238549B6D89A2F2A8EE7990131C403@bmsmail.sciencebuff.org> As some of you know, I and my colleague Jeffrey Schwartz submitted a paper for publication that presents morphological evidence for the monophyly of humans, hominids, and orangutans. The editors have indicated a willingness to publish the paper if we can include an explanation of why the morphology may be preferred over the 'wealth' of molecular evidence. I am in the process of drafting a section that basically points out that the molecular analyses fail to meet cladistic criteria despite their being presented as cladistics. In the process I am digging into the purported evidence to look at the original aligned sequences (which have no empirical existence - another critical problem). Below is an example of this process: As mentioned in an earlier post, I am digging into the purported wealth of molecular sequence evidence for the human-chimp-gorilla-orang phylogenetic pattern. Its not a straight forward process. For example, I started with Enard & P??bo (2004) as a fairly recent study that presents a human-chimp-gorilla-orang phylogeny. Enard & P??bo (2004) do not present actual evidence, but cite Goodman (1999) as the source. Goodman (1999) in turn cites Goodman et al (1998) and "in press (which was not cited). Goodman (1998) refers to the beta globin gene as giving a "well resolved picture" but does not present the evidence. He cites Koop et al (1989) [incorrectly as 1998], Bailey et al., 1992, and Porter et al 1997a. At this time I have looked at Koop et al (1989) - They include one data set (eta sequences of beta globin gene) that includes humans and each of the great ape genera along with three monkey species, a tarsier, a galago, and two lemurs. A total of 2373 gamma sequences are presented, but the last few exclude two taxa so if I just look at the 2318 sequences that cover all taxa there are only eight positions where there are bases not present outside humans and great apes. If I treat the remaining 7 species as the outgroup then these eight positions comprise the only putative apomorphies. All of them cluster humans and great apes. I bet that if more primate species were included in the outrgroup, these eight putative apomorphies would disappear in a puff of cladistic smoke. Koope et al (1989) generate a phylogenetic tree for the eta sequence that gives the human-chimp-gorilla-orangutan pattern, but it beats me as to where this came from. Cladistically this appears to be nonsense - there are no such apomorphies in the data set. Any comments? Criticisms? Denouncements? Mistakes? Goodman et al (1998) Mol Phylogenetics and evol 9: 585-598 Koop et al (1989) Mol. Biol. Evol. 6: 580-612 John Grehan From BENTLEYC at Grinnell.EDU Wed Nov 5 16:28:47 2008 From: BENTLEYC at Grinnell.EDU (Bentley-Condit, Vicki) Date: Wed Nov 5 16:31:30 2008 Subject: [PS] article Message-ID: <2C292BFB6B85F2468B3248CD01EEA2B53EDEACF2@emailmb2.grinnell.edu> Would anyone happen to have a copy of the article listed below that you would be willing to share (either electronically or paper)? It's only 2 pages in length. I can't get it via ILL and can't find a copy on-line and I need to verify some facts. Thanks in advance if you are able to help. Vicki Ellis, J. 1975. Orangutan tool use at Oklahoma City zoo. The Keeper 1:5-6. ******************************************************* Vicki K. Bentley-Condit, PhD Department of Anthropology Grinnell College Grinnell, IA 50112 PH: 641-269-4305 Email: bentleyc@grinnell.edu From hamel at primate.wisc.edu Thu Nov 6 00:00:05 2008 From: hamel at primate.wisc.edu (Ray Hamel) Date: Thu Nov 6 00:00:16 2008 Subject: [PS] Recent Primate-Jobs postings Message-ID: <200811060600.mA6605pU015883@white.primate.wisc.edu> The following listings were recently posted on Primate-Jobs http://pin.primate.wisc.edu/jobs --POSITIONS AVAILABLE-- Born Free USA Primate Sanctuary Director, Born Free USA http://pin.primate.wisc.edu/jobs/listings/1371 Field Manager, Wildlife Conservation Society, Takamanda-Mone Landscape Project http://pin.primate.wisc.edu/jobs/listings/1373 ------ Primate-Jobs on the web: http://pin.primate.wisc.edu/jobs Primate-Jobs via RSS feed: http://pin.primate.wisc.edu/rss/jobs.xml Primate-Jobs is maintained by the Lawrence Jacobsen (WPRC) Library at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. WPRC programs are supported by grant numbers RR000167 and RR015311, National Primate Centers Program, National Center for Research Resources, the National Institutes of Health. Note that the responsibility for conforming to local, state, regional and national employment listing regulations lies with the listing organization. The Wisconsin Primate Research Center, the University of Wisconsin, and the National Center for Research Resources (National Institutes of Health), will not be held liable for misinformation in, or consequences resulting from, postings to Primate-Jobs. Inclusion of a job listing does not imply endorsement of the listing organization. ------ From jgrehan at sciencebuff.org Thu Nov 6 07:59:55 2008 From: jgrehan at sciencebuff.org (John Grehan) Date: Thu Nov 6 07:58:57 2008 Subject: [PS] Hominid origins In-Reply-To: <19BD0279-7CB4-4B34-8CEB-778E6297C2EE@ucsd.edu> References: <200811052000.mA5K032C007803@white.primate.wisc.edu> <26DA12164B238549B6D89A2F2A8EE7990131C403@bmsmail.sciencebuff.org> <19BD0279-7CB4-4B34-8CEB-778E6297C2EE@ucsd.edu> Message-ID: <26DA12164B238549B6D89A2F2A8EE7990131C404@bmsmail.sciencebuff.org> Below is an off list response (name ommitted for presumed desire of list anonymity) . I will take the bet, but the response is rhetorical as the respondent gives no emprical foundation for their prediction. Just for general information, I usually do not respond separately off list regarding issues I raise to the list as a whole. John Grehan ________________________________ Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2008 5:55 PM To: John Grehan Subject: Re: [PS] Hominid origins You write I bet that if more primate species were included in the outrgroup, these eight putative apomorphies would disappear in a puff of cladistic smoke. I bet they won't -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://white.primate.wisc.edu/pipermail/primate-science/attachments/20081106/cff584d1/attachment.html From jgrehan at sciencebuff.org Thu Nov 6 08:51:15 2008 From: jgrehan at sciencebuff.org (John Grehan) Date: Thu Nov 6 08:50:13 2008 Subject: [PS] molecular nonsense? Message-ID: <26DA12164B238549B6D89A2F2A8EE7990131C408@bmsmail.sciencebuff.org> Ebersberger et al (2007) Mapping human genetic ancestry. Mol. Biol. Evol. 24: 2266-2276 The above work was brought to my attention as "rather relevant for your questioning of the (human, chimp) relationship" It certainly is, and illustrates what I see as continuing illusion of the putative chimpanzee-human clade. The paper uses a likelihood approach (correct me if I am wrong, but I understand that this approach sort of models what the true tree is supposed to be in the first place) to "identify those sequence trees that significantly reject chimpanzees as our closest relatives, that is, are incongruent with the species tree". There you have it, anything that does not fit must be wrong. The authors begin with the human-chimpanzee assumption and interpret everything from there. This seems to me a continuance of the molecular propaganda machine. Cladistically the taxonomic sampling is nonsense. To evaluate relationships of humans and great apes the outgroup is just one monkey species! The authors also admit that they have no information on the quality of the individual aligned sequence reads! Amazing! Is this the standard of systematic quality for molecular analyses? Imagine the response if a morphologists tries to say that they had no information on the quality of morphological homologies! The authors then proceed to invent the quality through a series of computational manipulations to somehow make the data good. They end up with 30,112 multiple sequence alignments that are available upon request (I will be requesting). The authors "re-estimate the splitting times for the human and great ape lineages." Hmmm - wonder why they have to do that. If molecules are supposed to give the right answer, then why revisit what has already been determined? On p. 2274 the authors node that "it is still unclear when in our evolutionary history we split from the ancestral species shared with the chimpanzees. Hmmm - maybe because the theory is wrong in the first place! "Particularly puzzling in this context is the apparent discrepancy between the dating of this split based on genetic evidences and the age of fossils." Well, their answer in short is that the fossil record is wrong because morphology is wrong! They state "The unequivocal assignment of fossil remains to a species more closely related to humans than to chimpanzees based on the presence of certain human-specific apomorphies should, therefore, be taken with a grain of salt"!!!!! This authoritative statement mirrors what Jeff and I have been saying for some time - if only DNA can be relied upon to give the right answer then the entire fossil record is scientifically meaningless, and now some molecular experts are saying the same thing! Morphological systematists are going to be out of job. Anyway, they note that the "current interpretation of the fossil record argues for the presence of hominids already at 5.8 MYBP" and possibly earlier. The molecular study manages to come up with the 'right' answer divergence estimate of 5.7 Ma (2270) Believe it or not. There is more! P. 2274 there is a general denouncement of morphological cladistics! "The problem with using apomorphies for the reconstruction of phylogenetic relationships, however, extends beyond the classification of fossils". "Because gene products essentially defined the phenotype, we can expect a certain proportion of derived morphological characters to support the sister grouping of humans and gorillas, or chimpanzees and gorillas" [but for some strange reason, not humans and orangutans!] So here you have it, on the authority of these expert molecular systematists, morphological cladistics is dead!!! (As I have said before, it baffles the boffin in my to understand why morphologists are so willing (desperate) to make themselves slaves to molecular authority)> John Grehan Dr. John R. 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URL: http://white.primate.wisc.edu/pipermail/primate-science/attachments/20081106/77a8fad9/attachment-0001.html From hamel at primate.wisc.edu Thu Nov 6 14:00:03 2008 From: hamel at primate.wisc.edu (Ray Hamel) Date: Thu Nov 6 14:00:20 2008 Subject: [PS] Recent Primate News (November 6, 2008) Message-ID: <200811062000.mA6K03O5027724@white.primate.wisc.edu> The following links were recently posted on Primates in the News http://pin.primate.wisc.edu/news/inthenews/ Deep in the Rain Forest, Stalking the Next Pandemic (New York Times; October 20, 2008) http://pin.primate.wisc.edu/scripts/external.php?link=8351 DNA Chunks, Chimps And Humans: Marks Of Differences Between Human And Chimp Genomes (ScienceDaily; November 6, 2008) http://pin.primate.wisc.edu/scripts/external.php?link=8352 Research on human embryonic stem cells marks 10-year milestone (University of Wisconsin-Madison News; November 6, 2008) http://pin.primate.wisc.edu/scripts/external.php?link=8355 ------ Primates in the News on the web: http://pin.primate.wisc.edu/news/inthenews/ Primates in the News via RSS feed: http://pin.primate.wisc.edu/rss/news.xml Primates in the News is maintained by the Lawrence Jacobsen (WPRC) Library at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. WPRC programs are supported by grant numbers RR000167 and RR015311, National Primate Centers Program, National Center for Research Resources, the National Institutes of Health. Note that the Wisconsin Primate Research Center provides Primates in the News as an informational service. We are not responsible for the content of linked sites, nor does inclusion of a link imply endorsement of the views expressed in that content. ------ From jgrehan at sciencebuff.org Thu Nov 6 14:04:09 2008 From: jgrehan at sciencebuff.org (John Grehan) Date: Thu Nov 6 14:03:16 2008 Subject: [PS] diet and teeth Pan Pongo Message-ID: <26DA12164B238549B6D89A2F2A8EE7990131C419@bmsmail.sciencebuff.org> I was sent the following press release http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/news/article?ID=1391 which elicited a couple of comments inserted below (IN CAPS TO DISTINGUISH FROM THE ORIGINAL TEXT) Anthropologists confirm link between diet and teeth of chimpanzees and orangutans Tuesday, March 18, 2008 For the first time, anthropologists at the University of California, Santa Cruz, have measured the mechanical properties of foods eaten in the wild by orangutans and chimpanzees to test assumptions about the link between diet and the teeth of primates. Their findings confirm what researchers have assumed, providing the first data that correlates the thick enamel of orangutans with a diet of hard foods. The results have significant implications for the study of the diet of early human ancestors, because anthropologists have long noted similarities between the teeth of hominids and orangutans, which appear to have independently evolved thickly enameled teeth that are well-adapted to the consumption of hard or gritty foods. IF HUMANS AND ORANGTUANS ARE MOST CLOSELY RELATED TO EACH OTHER AS THE MORPHOLOGICAL EIDENCE SUGGESTS, THEN THE THICKLY ENAMELED TEETH DID NOT EVOLVE INDEPENDANTLY. ORANGTUANS AND HUMANS (AND HOMINIDS) HAD THICK ENAMEL BECAUSE THEIR UNIQUE COMMON ANCESTOR ALSO HAD THICK ENAMEL The new study, which correlates differences in the teeth of chimpanzees and orangutans with differences in their diets, appears in the current online issue of the Journal of Human Evolution in a paper entitled, "Functional Ecology and Evolution of Hominoid Molar Enamel Thickness: Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii and Pongo pygmaeus wurmbii." "Orangutans have really thick enamel on their teeth and ridges across the basin of their molars, compared to chimpanzees, which have much thinner enamel," said Erin Vogel, associate researcher and lecturer in anthropology at UCSC. "Researchers have speculated for years about the function of this divergent morphology, but no one has ever measured the mechanical properties of their foods in the wild." In the field, Vogel and coauthor Nathaniel J. Dominy, assistant professor of anthropology at UCSC, systematically tested the foods eaten by orangutans and chimpanzees for hardness and toughness, uncovering differences that correlate with morphological differences in the two species' teeth. The study features data gathered by Vogel during nearly a year she spent observing 21 orangutans in Borneo, and chimpanzee data gathered in Uganda by Dominy. Vogel and Dominy used a new standardized engineering technology to study the properties of foods, generating data that are truly comparable across different continents, a significant advance over previous studies of monkey foods. Although orangutans and chimpanzees both prefer to eat ripe fruit, they turn to other sources of sustenance when fruit is unavailable. Those foods-called "fallback foods"-vary considerably and in ways that could explain why their teeth evolved so differently, said Vogel. OR IT COULD EXPLAIN WHY THEY HAVE DIFFERENT FALLBACK FOODS. "When fruit is scarce, orangutans feed on foods that are harder and tougher than what chimps eat, including tree bark and really hard seeds that would probably crack the tooth of any other primate," said Vogel. "By contrast, chimpanzees rely primarily on leaves during fallback periods, so they need those sharp blades formed by thin enamel to fracture the leaves." The findings indicate that fallback foods may have exerted selective pressure on tooth evolution, particularly on molar enamel. NOT EMPRICALLY. ALL THAT IS DEMONSTRATED IS THAT THICKER ENAMEL ALLOWS FEEDING ON HARDER FOODS "For orangutans, those thick, ridged surfaces are a functional adaptation to the routine consumption of relatively tough and hard foods," IF THIS MEANS THAT THEY HAVE THICK RIDGED SYURFACES TO ENABLE THEM TO EAT HARD FOODS THEN THIS IS SPECULATION ONLY. said Vogel, noting also that fruit isn't consistently available in Southeast Asia, which prompts the apes to frequently supplement their diet with other foods. The findings have implications for inferring the diet of early human ancestors, and they provide valuable comparative data for researchers exploring the diets of hominids. "We know early human ancestors had thicker enamel and very robust jaws, which this study indicates could have been adaptations to eating harder, gritty foods, including the underground storage organs of plants," said Vogel. Dominy has conducted pathbreaking resarch on the diet of early humans, which likely included bulbs, corms, and other underground plant parts. he next phase of Vogel's research will be to analyze the teeth and diets of orangutans on the island of Sumatra, where the apes eat fewer seeds and bark than those on Borneo. "Orangutans in Borneo have more robust jaws than those on Sumatra, which would seem to correlate with differences in their diets," noted Vogel. In addition to Vogel and Dominy, coauthors of the paper were Janneke T. van Woerden of the University of Utrecht; Peter W. Lucas of George Washington University; Sri S. Utami Atmoko of Universitas Nasional in Jakarta; and Carl P. van Schaik of the University of Zurich. Dr. John R. Grehan Director of Science Buffalo Museum of Science1020 Humboldt Parkway Buffalo, NY 14211-1193 email: jgrehan@sciencebuff.org Phone: (716) 896-5200 ext 372 Panbiogeography http://www.sciencebuff.org/biogeography_and_evolutionary_biology.php Ghost moth research http://www.sciencebuff.org/systematics_and_evolution_of_hepialdiae.php Human evolution and the great apes http://www.sciencebuff.org/human_origin_and_the_great_apes.php ? From hamel at primate.wisc.edu Mon Nov 10 14:00:03 2008 From: hamel at primate.wisc.edu (Ray Hamel) Date: Mon Nov 10 14:00:15 2008 Subject: [PS] Recent Primate News (November 10, 2008) Message-ID: <200811102000.mAAK03Qo029176@white.primate.wisc.edu> The following links were recently posted on Primates in the News http://pin.primate.wisc.edu/news/inthenews/ Crucell Vaccine Stops AIDS in Monkeys, Harvard Scientist Says (Bloomberg; November 9, 2008) http://pin.primate.wisc.edu/scripts/external.php?link=8357 ------ Primates in the News on the web: http://pin.primate.wisc.edu/news/inthenews/ Primates in the News via RSS feed: http://pin.primate.wisc.edu/rss/news.xml Primates in the News is maintained by the Lawrence Jacobsen (WPRC) Library at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. WPRC programs are supported by grant numbers RR000167 and RR015311, National Primate Centers Program, National Center for Research Resources, the National Institutes of Health. Note that the Wisconsin Primate Research Center provides Primates in the News as an informational service. We are not responsible for the content of linked sites, nor does inclusion of a link imply endorsement of the views expressed in that content. ------ From hamel at primate.wisc.edu Tue Nov 11 00:00:03 2008 From: hamel at primate.wisc.edu (Ray Hamel) Date: Tue Nov 11 00:00:19 2008 Subject: [PS] Recent Primate-Jobs postings Message-ID: <200811110600.mAB603TS006769@white.primate.wisc.edu> The following listings were recently posted on Primate-Jobs http://pin.primate.wisc.edu/jobs --POSITIONS AVAILABLE-- Veterinarian, Wa National Primate Reseach Center, University of Washington http://pin.primate.wisc.edu/jobs/listings/1374 --POSITIONS WANTED-- behaviour, ecology, cognition, evolution, comparative primatology http://pin.primate.wisc.edu/jobs/listings/1375 Primates; mainly monkeys http://pin.primate.wisc.edu/jobs/listings/1372 Primate Behavioral Research http://pin.primate.wisc.edu/jobs/listings/1376 ------ Primate-Jobs on the web: http://pin.primate.wisc.edu/jobs Primate-Jobs via RSS feed: http://pin.primate.wisc.edu/rss/jobs.xml Primate-Jobs is maintained by the Lawrence Jacobsen (WPRC) Library at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. 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Inclusion of a job listing does not imply endorsement of the listing organization. ------ From ruidiogo at gwu.edu Tue Nov 11 11:00:11 2008 From: ruidiogo at gwu.edu (Rui Boliqueime Martins Diogo) Date: Tue Nov 11 10:58:56 2008 Subject: [PS] Raven 1950, anatomy of Gorilla, pages 42-43 Message-ID: Hi, I am compiling all the information available on the Gorilla musculature, and am now reading Raven's 1950 excelent work. I got the book a long time ago, but I just realised I am missing pages 42 and 43. Could someone please send me a pdf of those two pages, or, if this is not possible, scan those two pages and send them to me by email? Thank you very much, Rui --------------- Rui Diogo Center for the Advanced Study of Hominid Paleobiology Department of Anthropology The George Washington University 2110 G St. NW Washington, DC 20052, USA Email - ruidiogo@gwu.edu and Rui_Diogo@hotmail.com "THE ORIGIN OF HIGHER CLADES: OSTEOLOGY, MYOLOGY, PHYLOGENY AND EVOLUTION OF BONY FISHES AND THE RISE OF TETRAPODS" http://www.amazon.com/Origin-Higher-Clades-Osteology-Phylogeny/dp/1578085306/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1209997405&sr=1-1 or http://scipub.net/fisheries/origin-higher-clades.html -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Rui --------------- Rui Diogo Center for the Advanced Study of Hominid Paleobiology Department of Anthropology The George Washington University 2110 G St. NW Washington, DC 20052, USA Email - ruidiogo@gwu.edu and Rui_Diogo@hotmail.com "THE ORIGIN OF HIGHER CLADES: OSTEOLOGY, MYOLOGY, PHYLOGENY AND EVOLUTION OF BONY FISHES AND THE RISE OF TETRAPODS" http://www.amazon.com/Origin-Higher-Clades-Osteology-Phylogeny/dp/1578085306/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1209997405&sr=1-1 or http://scipub.net/fisheries/origin-higher-clades.html ----- Original Message ----- From: Matt Hoffman Date: Tuesday, November 11, 2008 12:14 pm Subject: Re: [PS] Raven 1950, anatomy of Gorilla, pages 42-43 To: Rui Boliqueime Martins Diogo > Hi Rui: > > The book is in our library. I will try and send you a scan of the > two > pages shortly, hopefully as a PDF. > > Matt > > > On Nov 11, 2008, at 11:00 AM, Rui Boliqueime Martins Diogo wrote: > > Hi, > > I am compiling all the information available on the Gorilla > musculature, and am now reading Raven's 1950 excelent work. I got the > > book a long time ago, but I just realised I am missing pages 42 and > > 43. Could someone please send me a pdf of those two pages, or, if > this > is not possible, scan those two pages and send them to me by email? > > Thank you very much, > > Rui > > --------------- > Rui Diogo > > Center for the Advanced Study of Hominid Paleobiology > Department of Anthropology > The George Washington University > 2110 G St. NW > Washington, DC 20052, USA > Email - ruidiogo@gwu.edu and Rui_Diogo@hotmail.com > > "THE ORIGIN OF HIGHER CLADES: OSTEOLOGY, MYOLOGY, PHYLOGENY AND > EVOLUTION OF BONY FISHES AND THE RISE OF TETRAPODS" > > > > or > > > > _______________________________________________ > Primate-Science mailing list > Primate-Science@primate.wisc.edu > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Matt Hoffman > Internet Services and Outreach Librarian > Jacobsen Library > National Primate Research Center > University of Wisconsin-Madison > 1220 Capitol Court > Madison, WI 53715 > (608) 263-5537 > > mhoffman@primate.wisc.edu > > > "That's an excellent question. I have no idea." > From hamel at primate.wisc.edu Tue Nov 11 14:00:02 2008 From: hamel at primate.wisc.edu (Ray Hamel) Date: Tue Nov 11 14:00:15 2008 Subject: [PS] Recent Primate News (November 11, 2008) Message-ID: <200811112000.mABK0206018283@white.primate.wisc.edu> The following links were recently posted on Primates in the News http://pin.primate.wisc.edu/news/inthenews/ Primate researchers ask the big questions (Nature News; October 31, 2008) http://pin.primate.wisc.edu/scripts/external.php?link=8358 Jane Goodall branches out (Los Angeles Times; November 1, 2008) http://pin.primate.wisc.edu/scripts/external.php?link=8359 Ban on primate experiments would be devastating, scientists warn (Guardian; November 2, 2008) http://pin.primate.wisc.edu/scripts/external.php?link=8360 Attacked by monkeys, scared kids jump from rooftop (Times of India; November 2, 2008) http://pin.primate.wisc.edu/scripts/external.php?link=8361 ------ Primates in the News on the web: http://pin.primate.wisc.edu/news/inthenews/ Primates in the News via RSS feed: http://pin.primate.wisc.edu/rss/news.xml Primates in the News is maintained by the Lawrence Jacobsen (WPRC) Library at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. WPRC programs are supported by grant numbers RR000167 and RR015311, National Primate Centers Program, National Center for Research Resources, the National Institutes of Health. Note that the Wisconsin Primate Research Center provides Primates in the News as an informational service. We are not responsible for the content of linked sites, nor does inclusion of a link imply endorsement of the views expressed in that content. ------ From jdewar at gorilla-haven.org Wed Nov 12 09:36:15 2008 From: jdewar at gorilla-haven.org (Jane T. R. Dewar) Date: Wed Nov 12 09:36:57 2008 Subject: [PS] Finally ... new GH web update Message-ID: <458BD40C841F4FFC94C03A11AA76BF30@Jane4600> It seems to take forever these days, but finally we managed to get an update up at www.gorilla-haven.org about our fund-raising activities this summer, Joe and Oliver, etc, etc. We're in the very early stages of working with someone to totally overhaul and re-do our website, which has become too massive for its own good! But for now, we'll cobble along with the old website, using web updates to keep folk posted on our progress. Jane Dewar From hamel at primate.wisc.edu Wed Nov 12 14:00:03 2008 From: hamel at primate.wisc.edu (Ray Hamel) Date: Wed Nov 12 14:00:17 2008 Subject: [PS] Recent Primate News (November 12, 2008) Message-ID: <200811122000.mACK03q0006523@white.primate.wisc.edu> The following links were recently posted on Primates in the News http://pin.primate.wisc.edu/news/inthenews/ Monkeys snatched from wildlife park (Independent; November 11, 2008) http://pin.primate.wisc.edu/scripts/external.php?link=8363 Stem Cells From Monkey Teeth Can Stimulate Growth And Generation Of Brain Cells (ScienceDaily; November 11, 2008) http://pin.primate.wisc.edu/scripts/external.php?link=8364 Inside the Oxford animal lab (BBC News; November 11, 2008) http://pin.primate.wisc.edu/scripts/external.php?link=8365 Scientists compare human, chimp genetics (UPI; November 6, 2008) http://pin.primate.wisc.edu/scripts/external.php?link=8366 ------ Primates in the News on the web: http://pin.primate.wisc.edu/news/inthenews/ Primates in the News via RSS feed: http://pin.primate.wisc.edu/rss/news.xml Primates in the News is maintained by the Lawrence Jacobsen (WPRC) Library at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. WPRC programs are supported by grant numbers RR000167 and RR015311, National Primate Centers Program, National Center for Research Resources, the National Institutes of Health. Note that the Wisconsin Primate Research Center provides Primates in the News as an informational service. We are not responsible for the content of linked sites, nor does inclusion of a link imply endorsement of the views expressed in that content. ------ From hamel at primate.wisc.edu Thu Nov 13 00:00:06 2008 From: hamel at primate.wisc.edu (Ray Hamel) Date: Thu Nov 13 00:00:45 2008 Subject: [PS] Recent Primate-Jobs postings Message-ID: <200811130600.mAD606Oo014111@white.primate.wisc.edu> The following listings were recently posted on Primate-Jobs http://pin.primate.wisc.edu/jobs --POSITIONS AVAILABLE-- Field Research Assistant: Olive Baboon Feeding Behaviour, Nigeria, Roehampton University http://pin.primate.wisc.edu/jobs/listings/1377 ------ Primate-Jobs on the web: http://pin.primate.wisc.edu/jobs Primate-Jobs via RSS feed: http://pin.primate.wisc.edu/rss/jobs.xml Primate-Jobs is maintained by the Lawrence Jacobsen (WPRC) Library at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. WPRC programs are supported by grant numbers RR000167 and RR015311, National Primate Centers Program, National Center for Research Resources, the National Institutes of Health. Note that the responsibility for conforming to local, state, regional and national employment listing regulations lies with the listing organization. The Wisconsin Primate Research Center, the University of Wisconsin, and the National Center for Research Resources (National Institutes of Health), will not be held liable for misinformation in, or consequences resulting from, postings to Primate-Jobs. Inclusion of a job listing does not imply endorsement of the listing organization. ------ From jgrehan at sciencebuff.org Thu Nov 13 12:21:43 2008 From: jgrehan at sciencebuff.org (John Grehan) Date: Thu Nov 13 12:20:29 2008 Subject: [PS] real molecular data Message-ID: <26DA12164B238549B6D89A2F2A8EE7990131C474@bmsmail.sciencebuff.org> OK - just to prove I am nuts, I scanned every one of 21,507 sequence positions for coding data in the Prasad et al 2008 study (Confirming the phylogeny of mammals by use of large comparative sequence data sets Mol. Biol. Evol. 25: 1795-1808). The coding sequences produced (by parsimony analysis) a human-chimpanzee clade followed by gorilla and orangutan. I found the following (although I admit in advance I may have missed some. I had a twitch in one eye for a while) Human-chimp - 2 apomorphic bases Human gorilla - 1 apomorphic base Human-African ape - 20 apomorphic bases Chimp-gorilla - 1 apomorphic base These apomorphies were defined as being absent from all other primates - in this case only 12 species. In morphology this limited sampling would be usually recognized cladistically as an absurdly small outgroup representation. The outgroup taxa in this case were: 1 gibbon 1 colobus monkey 1 vervet monkey 1 baboon 1 macaque 1 duski titi 1 owl monkey 1 squirrel monkey 1 marmoset 1 galago 1 mouse lemur 1 lemur. The best I think that may be said of the molecular evidence supporting the human-chimpanzee relationship is that it is 'overwhelming' if one ignores the non-cladistic nature of alignment, and the small outgroup sampling that create apomorphies as an artifact of small outgroup sample size. For example, at site 14,466 there humans and African apes share 'A' and that would have been an apomorphy if it were not for the inclusion of that one gibbon where it also turned up. So my conclusion is that the molecular claims of proving the human-chimpanzee relationship is more propaganda than science, and more phenetics than cladistics. I rest my case (for now). One final point, I received a rather acerbic objection by a list member to an earlier 'vacuous' comment to an equally vacuous off list comment to me about a previous posting. That elicited an equally acerbic response from me. I actually agreed with the comment, but its harder to admit that when someone is criticizing this way. Sometimes I may post stuff that is minimally justified for taking list members busy time and I will try to avoid that (evidently this list has more people with less time than other lists I have experienced), and a apologize for that earlier posting. But if anyone sends an off list objection to me, please try to be dispassionate. I may well agree anyway. John Grehan Dr. John R. Grehan Director of Science Buffalo Museum of Science1020 Humboldt Parkway Buffalo, NY 14211-1193 email: jgrehan@sciencebuff.org Phone: (716) 896-5200 ext 372 Panbiogeography http://www.sciencebuff.org/biogeography_and_evolutionary_biology.php Ghost moth research http://www.sciencebuff.org/systematics_and_evolution_of_hepialdiae.php Human evolution and the great apes http://www.sciencebuff.org/human_origin_and_the_great_apes.php -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Frankly, we just aren't seeing a demand for this resource, based on our web hits and user-submitted reference questions. Please note we're just talking about the field studies section of the IDP here. We have no plans to drop the rest of the directory or anything else. We appreciate any feedback! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Matt Hoffman Internet Services and Outreach Librarian Jacobsen Library National Primate Research Center University of Wisconsin-Madison 1220 Capitol Court Madison, WI 53715 (608) 263-5537 mhoffman@primate.wisc.edu http://pin.primate.wisc.edu "That's an excellent question. I have no idea." From hamel at primate.wisc.edu Fri Nov 14 14:00:03 2008 From: hamel at primate.wisc.edu (Ray Hamel) Date: Fri Nov 14 14:00:21 2008 Subject: [PS] Recent Primate News (November 14, 2008) Message-ID: <200811142000.mAEK03Y5011296@white.primate.wisc.edu> The following links were recently posted on Primates in the News http://pin.primate.wisc.edu/news/inthenews/ Malaysia: Face to face with orangutans (Salt Lake Tribune; November 11, 2008) http://pin.primate.wisc.edu/scripts/external.php?link=8367 Chimpanzee takes care of white tiger cubs (Telegraph, UK; November 12, 2008) http://pin.primate.wisc.edu/scripts/external.php?link=8368 How warfare shaped human evolution (New Scientist; November 12, 2008) http://pin.primate.wisc.edu/scripts/external.php?link=8369 Rare monkeys found after tip-off (BBC News; November 13, 2008) http://pin.primate.wisc.edu/scripts/external.php?link=8370 Chimpanzees go on the lam in Carbon County (Missoulian; November 14, 2008) http://pin.primate.wisc.edu/scripts/external.php?link=8371 ------ Primates in the News on the web: http://pin.primate.wisc.edu/news/inthenews/ Primates in the News via RSS feed: http://pin.primate.wisc.edu/rss/news.xml Primates in the News is maintained by the Lawrence Jacobsen (WPRC) Library at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. WPRC programs are supported by grant numbers RR000167 and RR015311, National Primate Centers Program, National Center for Research Resources, the National Institutes of Health. Note that the Wisconsin Primate Research Center provides Primates in the News as an informational service. We are not responsible for the content of linked sites, nor does inclusion of a link imply endorsement of the views expressed in that content. ------ From hamel at primate.wisc.edu Mon Nov 17 14:00:04 2008 From: hamel at primate.wisc.edu (Ray Hamel) Date: Mon Nov 17 14:00:13 2008 Subject: [PS] Recent Primate News (November 17, 2008) Message-ID: <200811172000.mAHK049R021395@white.primate.wisc.edu> The following links were recently posted on Primates in the News http://pin.primate.wisc.edu/news/inthenews/ Anthropologist Assembles And Copies Skeleton Of Extinct Lemur (ScienceDaily; November 17, 2008) http://pin.primate.wisc.edu/scripts/external.php?link=8372 Guerillas threaten gorillas in Africa's oldest national park (AFP; November 16, 2008) http://pin.primate.wisc.edu/scripts/external.php?link=8373 See gorillas up close in Rwanda (Chicago Sun-Times; November 16, 2008) http://pin.primate.wisc.edu/scripts/external.php?link=8374 Heat lamp blamed for fire that kills 2 baboons (Associated Press; November 16, 2008) http://pin.primate.wisc.edu/scripts/external.php?link=8375 ------ Primates in the News on the web: http://pin.primate.wisc.edu/news/inthenews/ Primates in the News via RSS feed: http://pin.primate.wisc.edu/rss/news.xml Primates in the News is maintained by the Lawrence Jacobsen (WPRC) Library at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. WPRC programs are supported by grant numbers RR000167 and RR015311, National Primate Centers Program, National Center for Research Resources, the National Institutes of Health. Note that the Wisconsin Primate Research Center provides Primates in the News as an informational service. We are not responsible for the content of linked sites, nor does inclusion of a link imply endorsement of the views expressed in that content. ------ From Eric.Delson at lehman.cuny.edu Mon Nov 17 22:36:15 2008 From: Eric.Delson at lehman.cuny.edu (Eric Delson) Date: Mon Nov 17 22:34:56 2008 Subject: [PS] New York Primatology talk November 20th Message-ID: <20081118043622.GHEQ22042.hrndva-omta04.mail.rr.com@Eric.lehman.cuny.edu> The New York Consortium in Evolutionary Primatology (NYCEP) invites you to attend the following lecture in The New York Regional Primatology Colloquium: ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Thursday, November 20, 6:30 PM Christian Tryon New York University/Center for the Study of Human Origins and NYCEP The archaeology of human evolution: New results from the Middle and Late Pleistocene of Kenya and Turkey ----------------------------------------------------------------------- The talk will be held at the CUNY Graduate Center (365 5th avenue, between 34th and 35th streets), Room C415A (below street level) Dinner with the speaker is open to all after the talk. Please contact Dr. Ryan Raaum if you have any questions or to request dinner information. From hamel at primate.wisc.edu Tue Nov 18 00:00:03 2008 From: hamel at primate.wisc.edu (Ray Hamel) Date: Tue Nov 18 00:00:14 2008 Subject: [PS] Recent Primate-Jobs postings Message-ID: <200811180600.mAI603d5028684@white.primate.wisc.edu> The following listings were recently posted on Primate-Jobs http://pin.primate.wisc.edu/jobs --POSITIONS AVAILABLE-- Community & Wildlife Volunteer in South Africa, Umpalazi: Community & Wildlife Project http://pin.primate.wisc.edu/jobs/listings/1379 --POSITIONS WANTED-- Great Ape Social Behavior and Conservation http://pin.primate.wisc.edu/jobs/listings/1378 Primatology Field Assistant http://pin.primate.wisc.edu/jobs/listings/1380 ------ Primate-Jobs on the web: http://pin.primate.wisc.edu/jobs Primate-Jobs via RSS feed: http://pin.primate.wisc.edu/rss/jobs.xml Primate-Jobs is maintained by the Lawrence Jacobsen (WPRC) Library at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. WPRC programs are supported by grant numbers RR000167 and RR015311, National Primate Centers Program, National Center for Research Resources, the National Institutes of Health. Note that the responsibility for conforming to local, state, regional and national employment listing regulations lies with the listing organization. The Wisconsin Primate Research Center, the University of Wisconsin, and the National Center for Research Resources (National Institutes of Health), will not be held liable for misinformation in, or consequences resulting from, postings to Primate-Jobs. Inclusion of a job listing does not imply endorsement of the listing organization. ------ From hamel at primate.wisc.edu Wed Nov 19 14:00:06 2008 From: hamel at primate.wisc.edu (Ray Hamel) Date: Wed Nov 19 14:00:19 2008 Subject: [PS] Recent Primate News (November 19, 2008) Message-ID: <200811192000.mAJK06Cq027627@white.primate.wisc.edu> The following links were recently posted on Primates in the News http://pin.primate.wisc.edu/news/inthenews/ Wildlife protector honored (Profile of Toshisada Nishida; Daily Yomuiri; November 19, 2008) http://pin.primate.wisc.edu/scripts/external.php?link=8376 Tiny, long-lost primate rediscovered in Indonesia (Reuters; November 18, 2008) http://pin.primate.wisc.edu/scripts/external.php?link=8377 Dr. Adrian Kantrowitz, Cardiac Pioneer, Dies at 90 (New York Times; November 19, 2008) http://pin.primate.wisc.edu/scripts/external.php?link=8378 Monkey gossip hints at social origins of language (New Scientist; November 19, 2008) http://pin.primate.wisc.edu/scripts/external.php?link=8379 Our ancestors had floppy, flexible gibbon feet (MSNBC; November 19, 2008) http://pin.primate.wisc.edu/scripts/external.php?link=8380 ------ Primates in the News on the web: http://pin.primate.wisc.edu/news/inthenews/ Primates in the News via RSS feed: http://pin.primate.wisc.edu/rss/news.xml Primates in the News is maintained by the Lawrence Jacobsen (WPRC) Library at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. WPRC programs are supported by grant numbers RR000167 and RR015311, National Primate Centers Program, National Center for Research Resources, the National Institutes of Health. Note that the Wisconsin Primate Research Center provides Primates in the News as an informational service. We are not responsible for the content of linked sites, nor does inclusion of a link imply endorsement of the views expressed in that content. ------ From hamel at primate.wisc.edu Thu Nov 20 00:00:03 2008 From: hamel at primate.wisc.edu (Ray Hamel) Date: Thu Nov 20 00:01:07 2008 Subject: [PS] Recent Primate-Jobs postings Message-ID: <200811200600.mAK603wq005676@white.primate.wisc.edu> The following listings were recently posted on Primate-Jobs http://pin.primate.wisc.edu/jobs --POSITIONS AVAILABLE-- --POSITIONS WANTED-- Primate Behavior, Communication, Social Structure http://pin.primate.wisc.edu/jobs/listings/1381 ------ Primate-Jobs on the web: http://pin.primate.wisc.edu/jobs Primate-Jobs via RSS feed: http://pin.primate.wisc.edu/rss/jobs.xml Primate-Jobs is maintained by the Lawrence Jacobsen (WPRC) Library at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. 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Inclusion of a job listing does not imply endorsement of the listing organization. ------ From cweis at mindspring.com Thu Nov 20 07:01:40 2008 From: cweis at mindspring.com (Charles Weisbard) Date: Thu Nov 20 07:00:21 2008 Subject: [PS] Physical Anthropology at Columbia Message-ID: <20537652.1227186100547.JavaMail.root@elwamui-norfolk.atl.sa.earthlink.net> 100 Years After Its Birth at Columbia, Anthropology's Identity Still Evolving By Joy Resmovits PUBLISHED NOVEMBER 19, 2008 Last weekend, anthropologists flocked to the American Museum of Natural History to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the death of Barnard alumna and anthropology pioneer, Margaret Mead. At the 32nd-annual Margaret Mead Film and Video Festival, spectators watched ethnographic films by luminaries such as Franz Boas and Zora Neale Hurston, BC ?27. Though the viewers may have seen a slice of anthropology?s past, what they saw represents only one strand of the field?s present. A comparative glance at the discipline?s roots now reveals how anthropology has morphed in ways that its founders may or may not have imagined. As a discipline, anthropology??the study of the human condition??began as a hybrid field, combining sociocultural analysis with linguistics, archeology, and the biological study of human history. But over the course of several decades of self-reflective debate and academic reorganization, the discipline has specified. At Columbia, this process has resulted in a department that is predominantly sociocultural, with strands of archeology, a new historical focus, and at this point, just a bit of biological anthropology. >From a pragmatic standpoint, the compositional changes to Columbia?s department needed to occur, since so much knowledge could not fit under one department. But as it shifted along with wider forces, it lost part of its hodgepodge heart. In a way, the evolution of Columbia?s anthropology department is reflective of a trend across academia. Interdisciplinary programs, such as American studies, gender studies, and ethnic studies, have cropped up across the University, blurring departmental lines. As ?interdisciplinarity? has become the buzzword of academia, the organization of the humanities has come under fire. Programs that deviate from traditional structures, such as urban studies, are re-forming, and the story of the balkanization of anthropology?a discipline that was known for its broad focus in both social and hard sciences?is a reflection of this shift. ?The scholarly world has changed,? said Columbia Provost Alan Brinkley, a history professor. ?It?s much more theory-driven scholarship in a lot of departments. There?s a big divide between the hard social sciences?economics, political science, sociology?which tend to be very rigorously quantitative, and the humanities and some of the softer social sciences have become more theory-driven. In both cases there?s a lot of interdisciplinarity. Even English departments are becoming interdisciplinary. It?s the way in which the academic world is evolving.? At Columbia, anthropology?s fluidity is particularly pronounced because of its interdisciplinary roots and focal change. Several decades after establishing itself as an academic discipline, anthropology had what some might call an identity crisis. During the Vietnam War and the Cold War, anthropologists realized that their fieldwork was being used to help inform U.S. military efforts, leading scholars to feel that they had exploited their subjects. As a result, anthropology has become more self-reflective. The tension within anthropology has led to questions about the direction of the discipline?s future. Academics agree that as the composition of what was once called anthropology has shifted dramatically, much of the discipline has switched jurisdiction. Few anthropology departments still include all four of the original sub-fields in their original proportions. Even now, many courses taught in anthropology seem as though?given its contemporary definition?they could be taught in other departments in the University, such as English or American studies. For example, both Columbia?s anthropology department and New York University?s English department are teaching a course called Thing Theory. But the jury?s still out on whether the department?s flux has been a blessing, a curse, or simply the logical growth from its roots. ?Anthropology departments have split off,? said Don Melnick, Thomas Hunt Morgan Professor of Conservation Biology in the Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology. Melnick founded the EEEB department in 2001 when physical anthropology split off from the department. ?It?s just a reflection of an explosion of information?the near impossibility of mastering all of that information.? That might explain how Columbia?s anthropology department changed from a discipline that bridged linguistics, sociocultural anthropology, archeology, and biological anthropology, to a department dominated by sociocultural anthropology with elements of history. ?The anthropology department, once this split took place, became a social science department,? Brinkley said. Severin Fowles, a Barnard anthropology professor who specializes in archeology, sees it as paradoxical. ?At the very moment in which the broader world of academia becomes more interdisciplinary, we see this value in interdisciplinary anthropology has begun to lose itself,? he said. The Faces of Anthro It is a testament to anthropology?s interdisciplinary nature that faculty in Columbia and Barnard?s departments arrived by such different paths. ?Strictly speaking, I have no business being the Franz Boas Professor of Anthropology at Columbia,? Nicholas Dirks, vice president for arts and sciences and Franz Boas Professor of Anthropology and History, told students last year at a lecture at his alma mater, Wesleyan University. Dirks started in history, but his mentor?Bernard Cohn at the University of Chicago?trained him in anthropology. After decades of research in India, he ended up chairing Columbia?s anthropology department in the 1990s. ?It had to do with the fledgling nature of Indian research,? Dirks said. ?One had to turn to anthropology to cure the imperialist historical approach in India.? Past Barnard president and anthropologist Judith Shapiro overlapped with Dirks at Chicago. Shapiro also intended to study history, but she got her Ph.D. in anthropology because of the subject?s breadth. ?The essential message of anthropology is a struggle against provincialism,? Shapiro said. Like Shapiro, Colin Felsman, CC ?09, said he never planned to study anthropology. He took an interesting course, and saw it as alternate lens for viewing the world. ?Anthropology is a discipline that seeks to critically investigate and study social relations, seeks to expose the often arbitrary structures that society creates, and seeks to critique why we organize ourselves in certain ways,? Felsman said. At times, this self-reflection is frustrating. ?Anthropology is in search of the authentic. What drives anthropology is that it will never cover what is truly authentic,? Felsman said. ?This is cool and a downer at the same time.? Teachers College Professor George Bond can trace his family tree to American slavery. His ancestors used academia to transfer to the life of free men, and became professors in sociology. Bond intended to become a doctor, but an anthropology class shifted his focus. Plus, he didn?t enjoy his time working in a hospital. ?I couldn?t take the indignity done to the human body in the name of curing it,? Bond said. ?I was in the cancer ward, and I saw it wasn?t for me. I much prefer to see something grow and manifest itself in social terms.? Roar Anthro Roar American anthropology was officially born at Columbia in 1896. Franz Boas created the department and field, and ?was committed to the idea of the uniqueness of each culture, and to the observation and recording of those cultures ?in the field,? in all aspects and as much detail as possible,? according to the department?s Web site. Boas trained many hotshot anthropologists, such as Zora Neale Hurston, BC ?27, who proceeded to shape the discipline. Boas had a background in physics and natural science, and read widely in philosophy. He preserved the materials and histories of cultures he thought would die out, and created Columbia?s department. He recognized that Hurston was a promising student and sent her to study her roots down in Eatonville, Fla., the setting of her novel Their Eyes Were Watching God. With the broad purview of studying humanity, the hybrid field was born with feet in the camps of science and humanities. Over time, the standard composition of anthropology became known as the ?four-field approach.? The four fields relied on the commonality of fieldwork?the collection of fossils, stories, tongues, and materials?to study the human condition. The bulk of anthropological research produced ethnographies, or studies of cultures, but there were limits to that practice. ?At some point, it began to be clear to sociocultural anthropologists that you couldn?t really do that,? Barnard anthropology professor Nan Rothschild said. ?An anthropologist is not an objective observer, and everyone brings their own point of view to looking at something else. ... People realized not only had they brought their own ideas, but in trying to study somebody else, you were assuming that an outsider could say more about their culture than they could.? Boas became a controversial figure in the field when he questioned imperialism 60 years before it was fashionable?he was berated by his Columbia colleagues and censured by the American Association of Anthropology for being less than patriotic. As a statement of defiance, he transferred his teaching and office across the street to Barnard. He was so embittered by the experience that he only returned 10 years later, after a long courtship by Columbia President Nicholas Murray Butler. The Boasian view that acknowledges ingrained biases in fieldwork ultimately infiltrated anthropology at large. ?The detour that anthropologists take by first studying a society that?s very different from their own not only helps them to understand that society, but it helps them to turn back and look at their society with more objective eyes,? Shapiro said. To reflect that, Shapiro said that during the 1968 protests, the department office remained open and students went to do fieldwork in Queens. Perhaps due to anthropology?s inclination to question itself, departments throughout the country have reconstituted recently. In 1998, Stanford?s department split in two?into science and humanities?only to reunite nine years later. Duke?s department split as well. Anthropology also struggles to define itself in comparison with sociology. Bond, the TC professor, said he sees little difference between the departments because, though the disciplines started from different perspectives, they have since intellectually converged. ?You have different disciplines moving forward. Once they develop forward, they develop structures,? Bond said. ?To be crass, they become jobs. Then they develop their own approaches, and separate. It depends on arbitrary departmental lines you want to draw.? The ebbing of interdisciplinarity is an ?awkward moment for anthropology,? Fowles agreed. ?Anthropology is growing and suffering in a brave new world of post-disciplines.? Anthropology at Columbia When he was recruited from University of Michigan to become Columbia anthropology?s chair in 1997, Dirks set out to rebuild the department. ?I sought to hire anthropologists from the parts of the world that have typically been the objects rather than the subjects of anthropological inquiry,? Dirks said. The department now has sociocultural experts from all corners of the globe, including the Middle East, France, India, China, and Madagascar. Like Dirks, many of these professors hold joint appointments in both anthropology and history. Dirks founded a joint Ph.D. program in anthropology and history at the University of Michigan, the department he raided when he moved to Columbia in the early 1990s. He said his vision of anthropology combined ?cultural or social anthropology with the kind of historical training done in history departments,? adding that in his view, learning languages trumps studying linguistics and sentence structure. Under Dirks, predictably, Columbia?s anthropologists became primarily socioculturally oriented, and the department acquired a newer historical focus. While some archeology classes are still taught within anthropology, Columbia also now has a department of art history and archeology. Linguistics has become a concentration, and physical anthropology split off?except for Professor Ralph Holloway, a minority who is still clinging to the interdisciplinary structure of anthropology he prized during his 44 years teaching and researching the evolution of the human brain at Columbia. After Dirks brought in sociocultural specialists, the anthropology department re-evaluated the undergraduate major. The department created tracks within the major, and the professor in charge of each sub-field choose which other sub-field courses to require of their students. While biological/physical anthropology requires its students to explore other areas of the discipline, other tracks did not make their students take the more scientific courses. To Holloway?s chagrin, students can now graduate with degrees in anthropology without knowing about evolution?a piece of knowledge he saw as key to understanding the human condition. E3B Split Professor Marina Cords, who researches primates, came into Columbia?s anthropology department with a Ph.D. in biology because, despite her degree, she found an opening there. ?I had a feeling back then that the biological people were well on their way to becoming an independent department,? Cords said. In 1994, biological anthropologist Don Melnick received a large grant to create a consortium with five institutions in New York that focused on the conservation of biodiversity. At the time, Columbia?s biology department was more cell-focused. The consortium became known as the Center for Environmental Research and Conservation, and CERC started an undergraduate major and graduate programs which became popular quickly. Melnick used the grant to hire faculty. After a number of years, the program seemed to outgrow its bounds as a center and needed a new structure to survive. After a lot of paperwork and meetings, E3B formed as the first department created at Columbia since before World War II. When E3B formed, the undergraduate biological anthropology major ceased to exist within anthropology, becoming instead a program within E3B. The content survived, but it left the discipline. Because of the new makeup of anthropology, the split seemed natural. ?I had felt strongly that physical anthropology in particular should be a separate field of biological research and teaching, hardly necessary?let alone genuinely attainable?for the training of a historical anthropologist in the late 20th century,? Dirks said at Wesleyan. Melnick said the division was favorable, and reflected on the expanding realms of knowledge in each sub-field. ?I didn?t think there was any way in which department structures of the 20th century would be department structures of the 21st, just because the structures of the 20th century weren?t those of the 19th,? Melnick said. ?It seems to me a natural progression, and it?s happened before.? Dirks and Melnick said E3B formed with little infighting, unlike bitter splits at other universities. But Holloway, the lone holdout in anthropology, still feels shafted, and says his field has become ?the service arm? of anthropology. Holloway, who is often consulted by scientist to interpret discoveries, stuck to his anthropological guns, and did not agree to join the new department. He resents the degree of specialization within the sociocultural sub-field. At Columbia, at least, Holloway is alone in his resistance to anthropology?s drift. Holloway said that he feels he doesn?t understand what his colleagues do. ?They think biology is basically a social construct. It?s been so many years since graduate students regarded this as a cohesive whole that studied the entire human condition,? he said. ?How can you study humanity and ignore the biological basis for human behavior? We?re animals!? Holloway only teaches undergraduates, and plans to retire soon. When he does, Cords said, it might be up to E3B to decide whether to replace someone with expertise in physical anthropology, or to hire an E3B specialist. ?For us, the choice would be clear,? Cords said. ?We?re E3B, and that?s where we would lean. This would have negative consequences in biological anthropology.? For the first time, Columbia?s department of anthropology would lack a biological anthropologist. The Politics of Academia In some ways, Holloway?s departure would symbolize the end of an era. Though he is currently a pariah within his department, Holloway espouses a philosopher that harkens back to Boas. The forces of academic change have dictated a balkanization of anthropology?s varied traditional sub-fields. But in the process, Columbia?s anthropology department seems to have found a new voice as the haven for postcolonial studies. Some students say that classes at Columbia are now all taught from the same theoretical conclusion, the perspective of post-colonialism, which questions the Western focus of study, and is therefore the logical theoretical continuation of anthropology?s reflective turn. Dirks said that this change happened naturally when a more diverse set of anthropologists entered the field. ?The problem with the term post-colonialism is that it?s really ceased to have any meaning anymore. For a long time, it was an important category for thinking about different ways of looking at history, anthropology, literature,? he said. ?But it doesn?t mean what it used to mean. In a world now where India and China had growth rates of 9 percent in a year, the particular legacies of colonialism are in some ways less important than the new institutions of global finance capital. It seems to me that we need to change the kind of focus, on how you think about the categories of work. These terms have utility of particular moments. Often, they get used far longer than they are good for.? Regardless, the theory still pervades the department, to the chagrin of its critics. ?Not all problems of the world are caused by colonization,? Holloway said. ?I?m on the faculty listserv, and political things are being e-mailed. I forwarded this anti-post-colonialism article. The response?it was like I had done a very, very bad thing.? Perhaps because of its philosophy of deconstructing power, the department has also been active in many controversial political debates in recent years. Last year, many anthropologists signed the Faculty of Arts and Sciences? petition that berated University President Lee Bollinger about academic freedom. The tenure case of Barnard anthropology department chair Nadia Abu El-Haj was also widely scrutinized outside of Columbia?s gates because of the subjects of her scholarship. Though some critics say that the controversial turn of anthropology is to the detriment of the department, some anthropologists say that it?s just the nature of a field that has long drawn from those with an anti-institutional bent. ?Anthropologists are bohemian radicals,? Fowles said. ?You become an anthropologist because you want to do good in the world, and you?re looking for places to intervene and cultural translation. But at the end of the day, we?re all paid.? From hamel at primate.wisc.edu Thu Nov 20 14:00:05 2008 From: hamel at primate.wisc.edu (Ray Hamel) Date: Thu Nov 20 14:00:15 2008 Subject: [PS] Recent Primate News (November 20, 2008) Message-ID: <200811202000.mAKK05bO016510@white.primate.wisc.edu> The following links were recently posted on Primates in the News http://pin.primate.wisc.edu/news/inthenews/ Congo Violence Reaches Endangered Mountain Gorillas (New York Times; November 17, 2008) http://pin.primate.wisc.edu/scripts/external.php?link=8381 ------ Primates in the News on the web: http://pin.primate.wisc.edu/news/inthenews/ Primates in the News via RSS feed: http://pin.primate.wisc.edu/rss/news.xml Primates in the News is maintained by the Lawrence Jacobsen (WPRC) Library at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. WPRC programs are supported by grant numbers RR000167 and RR015311, National Primate Centers Program, National Center for Research Resources, the National Institutes of Health. 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We are not responsible for the content of linked sites, nor does inclusion of a link imply endorsement of the views expressed in that content. ------ From hamel at primate.wisc.edu Thu Nov 27 00:00:04 2008 From: hamel at primate.wisc.edu (Ray Hamel) Date: Thu Nov 27 00:00:15 2008 Subject: [PS] Recent Primate-Jobs postings Message-ID: <200811270600.mAR604LH022467@white.primate.wisc.edu> The following listings were recently posted on Primate-Jobs http://pin.primate.wisc.edu/jobs --POSITIONS AVAILABLE-- Policy Internship, Bonobo Conservation Inititative http://pin.primate.wisc.edu/jobs/listings/1388 ------ Primate-Jobs on the web: http://pin.primate.wisc.edu/jobs Primate-Jobs via RSS feed: http://pin.primate.wisc.edu/rss/jobs.xml Primate-Jobs is maintained by the Lawrence Jacobsen (WPRC) Library at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. 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Inclusion of a job listing does not imply endorsement of the listing organization. ------ From hamel at primate.wisc.edu Fri Nov 28 14:00:03 2008 From: hamel at primate.wisc.edu (Ray Hamel) Date: Fri Nov 28 14:00:20 2008 Subject: [PS] Recent Primate News (November 28, 2008) Message-ID: <200811282000.mASK03Wf011779@white.primate.wisc.edu> The following links were recently posted on Primates in the News http://pin.primate.wisc.edu/news/inthenews/ Where orang-utans go for rehab (The Age; October 1, 2008) http://pin.primate.wisc.edu/scripts/external.php?link=8389 ------ Primates in the News on the web: http://pin.primate.wisc.edu/news/inthenews/ Primates in the News via RSS feed: http://pin.primate.wisc.edu/rss/news.xml Primates in the News is maintained by the Lawrence Jacobsen (WPRC) Library at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. WPRC programs are supported by grant numbers RR000167 and RR015311, National Primate Centers Program, National Center for Research Resources, the National Institutes of Health. Note that the Wisconsin Primate Research Center provides Primates in the News as an informational service. We are not responsible for the content of linked sites, nor does inclusion of a link imply endorsement of the views expressed in that content. ------ From jgrehan at sciencebuff.org Sun Nov 30 09:09:50 2008 From: jgrehan at sciencebuff.org (John Grehan) Date: Sun Nov 30 09:09:07 2008 Subject: [PS] Tapetum lucidum Message-ID: <26DA12164B238549B6D89A2F2A8EE7990131C508@bmsmail.sciencebuff.org> I would be most grateful for any corroboration or falsification of the absence of a tapetum lucidum (the light-reflecting layer) in the eyes of Varecia variegata and Eulemur fulvous. I am looking for published reference that is authoritative (ie a first-hand description that is detailed on this point). Even without that information I would be generally interested to hear from anyone who has seen whether these species (or any other prosimian) fail to reflect light from their eyes at night. There is some ambiguity in the literature. Preserved specimens may not retain the integrity of tapetum, thus giving the false impression of its absence so preserved material is not reliable. John Grehan -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://white.primate.wisc.edu/pipermail/primate-science/attachments/20081130/bc5b1a26/attachment.html