- other bits of “The Extended Phenotype” by Richard Dawkins
- “On Aggression” by Konrad Lorenz and whatever follows up on
that
- recent work by Stefan Lindquist on reconciling the extent to which
emotions have to be understood socially with the biological “basic
emotion” idea (and related stuff by Paul Griffiths etc.)
- something about the Savage-Rumbaugh bonobos, maybe including
something about the Great Ape Project, which would fit in with my
research schedule for second semester — Karola Stotz says: “The anthro
department here in Bloomington together with the Stone age Institute are
doing a clever long-term study on the evolution of tool use and
technology. They are doing field studies in Afrika together with
experimental study on modern tool making humans and modern human in the
Institute trying to reverse engineer tool making in the Pleistocene, and
an collaborative project with Savage-Rumbaugh’s language research center
in Atlanta where Kanzi and his sister are learning tool making and
tool-use. http://www.stoneageinstitute.org/c_home.shtml”
— there are friendly local linguists around who know a bit about
Savage-Rumbaugh’s work
