… What follows is not a scholarly review of the baboon literature and its relevance to human …
insights about baboons based on 40 years of observing them in the wild. Baboons have long …

… Even putting these differences to the side, though, the mere presence of hierarchical structure
is not enough to make baboon cognition distinctively language-like, because once again, …

… , is not a species characteristic because λ can vary markedly, as we observe here for three
baboon … The coefficient of variance for λ among our sample of baboon populations is 60.7%, …

… The present paper uses baboon diversity to … The baboons are well suited to this purpose,
because the various phenotypically distinct "forms" (which I call sub~pecies) have some but not …

… not just knowledge but understanding; she ceased being a scientific technician focused on
a narrow aspect of baboon … She found that baboons live in a peaceful society in which not …

… We do not assume that all of human and baboon vision—especially higher-level vision—is
itself linear (see Mangini & Biederman, 2004, for a discussion of the implications of modeling …

… I argue that it is not only a matter of ethics but one of coexisting better with each other. By
considering animals’ culture with a historical lens, we understand them better and adjust …

… baboon ecology which are of the greatest help in understanding human evolution. Obviously,
man is not descended from a baboon… is not an organizing principle for male baboons. This …

… Many game reserves in Africa sup port baboon populations but not all were suited to our
purpose. We had to be able to locate and recognize particu lar troops and their individual …

… From the baboons’ point of view, El Niño was not entirely a season of plenty because … not
included in protocols on ranging or on activity budget and diet. However, what the baboons …