1982/06/01 by Frank E. Pokier, Laura Hussey · 1 citation
Psychology · #Primate Behavior and Ecology #Psychological and Educational Research Studies #Child and Animal Learning Development #Social learning #Perspective (graphical) #Kinship #Cognitive science #Adaptation (eye) #Active learning (machine learning) #Adaptive value #Epistemology #Psychology #Sociology #Anthropology #Evolutionary biology #Biology #Artificial intelligence #Computer science
paper · doi:10.1525/aeq.1982.13.2.05x1830j
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Learning is adaptive, and throughout their evolutionary history primates have been programmed for ease of learning. Comparative studies of learning are of limited value if they ignore the biological referrent. Primates have a potential for learning broad sets of new tasks. Age, sex, social structure, and kinship relationships affect the learning process. An anthropology of learning must be an anthropology of the evolution of learning. This perspective raises a number of research questions for future investigation. ADAPTATION, CROSS‐SPECIFIC, EVOLUTION, LEARNING, PRIMATES.