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  • The study of the nonhuman primates can provide information from which we can attempt to reconstruct aspects of human evolution, especially the evolution of our behavior.
  • Behavior may be defined as all the actions and inactions of an organism.
  • Both quantitative and qualitative research methods enrich our study of behavior.
  • A behavior may be viewed from five different perspectives: phylogeny, ontogeny, proximate stimulus, the behavior itself, and the function of the behavior.







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