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Baboon Metaphysics: The Evolution of a Social Mind
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Program: Intelligent Talk Television #145
Broadcast Date: Jul. 4, 2008
A featured speaker at the 2008 Emergence of Mind Symposium sponsored by the Great Ape Trust of Iowa was Dr. Robert Seyfarth, a professor of psychology at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. Dr. Seyfarth began his research with vervet monkeys in Kenya, and since 1992 has been involved in a study of communication, cognition and behavior among baboons in the Moremi Game Reserve, Botswana.
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Post Date: June 30, 2008
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