#59 Peter Kappeler: Sexual and Mating Dynamics in Primate Species, Human Universals

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Dr. Peter Kappeler is a Professor at the faculty of Zoology and Anthropology at Göttingen University, Germany, and at the Behavioral Ecology & Sociobiology department at the German Primate Center. He also teaches as a guest lecturer at the University of Antananarivo, Madagascar. He’s the author or editor of books like Mind the Gap: Tracing the Origins of Human Universals, Animal Behaviour: Evolution and Mechanisms, and The Evolution of Primate Species.

In this episode, the conversation revolves around sexual selection in primate species, and human universals and the contributions of primatology to a better understanding of human behavior. Starting with the conditions to lead to the development of sexual dimorphisms, we then move on to talk about intersexual and intrasexual selection; the ecological conditions that favor male and female philopatry, that is, for males or females to stay in their troops of origin; pair-bonding in animals, and the problem with explaining monogamy; how sex ratios influence reproductive strategies; life history, and what it tells us about the evolutionary history of a particular species; primatology and the study of human universals; the relevance of the unique events in Homo sapiens’ evolutionary history; and also the studying of other animal taxa. 

Time Links:

00:47 How sexual dimorphism develops?

03:48 Intersexual and intrasexual selection 

07:48 Relation between sociality and sexual dimorphism 

10:38 Female and male philopatry, and sociality 

13:56 What favors pair-bonding in primates? 

20:05 The problem with understanding monogamy 

22:40 Sex ratios and reproductive strategies 

24:23 The importance of life history in primate studies 

28:18 Primatology and the studying of human universals 

33:28 Humans’ evolutionary history, and differences between humans and other primates

35:25 How do other animal taxa contribute to studying human behavior?

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