Why do people find monkeys and apes so compelling to watch? One
clear answer is that they seem so similar to us-a window into our
own minds and how we have evolved over millennia. As Charles Darwin
wrote in his Notebook, "He who understands baboon would do more
toward metaphysics than Locke." Darwin recognized that behavior and
cognition, and the neural architecture that support them, evolved
to solve specific social and ecological problems. Defining these
problems for neurobiological study, and conveying neurobiological
results to ethologists and psychologists, is fundamental to an
evolutionary understanding of brain and behavior. The goal of this
book is to do just that. It collects, for the first time in a
single book, information on primate behavior and cognition,
neurobiology, and the emerging discipline of neuroethology. Here
leading scientists in several fields review work ranging from
primate foraging behavior to the neurophysiology of motor control,
from vocal communication to the functions of the auditory cortex.
The resulting synthesis of cognitive, ethological, and
neurobiological approaches to primate behavior yields a richer
understanding of our primate cousins that also sheds light on the
evolutionary development of human behavior and cognition.
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