Hutton Honors College

Inside the Minds of Other Species

Discussion Lunch with Primatologists
Dorothy Cheney and Robert Seyfarth
on the Evolution of Intelligence and Language

Thursday, Nov. 5, 2009 * 12:30-2 p.m. * Harlos House (1331 E. Tenth St.) * SIGN-UP REQUIRED

How do other species see the world? What do they understand of their place in it? How self-aware, emotional, and empathetic are monkeys, chimpanzees, and baboons? What can we learn from such non-human primates about the way our own minds work? Join Dorothy Cheney and Robert Seyfarth, professors of biology and psychology (respectively) at the University of Pennsylvania, for an informal discussion of the pioneering work they have been doing observing, recording, and analyzing the communications and behaviors of non-human primates. They are the co-authors of Primate Societies; How Monkeys See the World: Inside the Mind of Another Species; Baboon Metaphysics: The Evolution of a Social Mind, and many other publications.

Cheney and Seyfarth will be on campus as guests of the Institute for Advanced Study and are also participating in the College of Arts and Sciences' Themester series. Cheney and Seyfarth will deliver a Branigin lecture, "The Evolution of Social Cognition," on Thursday, November 5, at 7 p.m. in Myers Hall 130. This lunch is co-sponsored by the Wells Scholars Program.

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