Date/Time
Date(s) - 03/06/2014
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Location
SMSU 327-8
1825 Broadway Rm. 327-8 --Portland
Sigma Xi Distinguished Lecture
Conversations with Chimpanzees:
Transforming our View of Nature
Dr. Mary Lee A. Jensvold
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology & Museum Studies, Primate Behavior & Ecology Program
Central Washington University
Thursday, March 6, 2014, 7:30 pm
Smith Memorial Union 327-8, Portland State University
The lecture is free and open to the public
Chimpanzees share behavioral and biological similarities with humans. Cross-fostering studies are a way to study the interaction of genetics and the environment. In the 1960’s and 70’s at the University of Nevada-Reno cross-fostered chimpanzees raised like deaf human children acquired signs in patterns that resembled human children. A young chimpanzee Loulis acquired his signs from other signing chimpanzees. As adults today they continue to use their signs to communicate with humans and each other.