We are delighted to bring you this course in collaboration with our friends at OLLI at Arizona State University. 

Please join Caitlin Hawley (https://search.asu.edu/profile/3422374), PhD candidate in the school of Human Evolution and Social Change at ASU, and explore the diversity of non-human primates – our closest living relatives. In this short course, we will see how both evolutionary patterns and current environmental pressures shape social behavior and physiology. We will begin with an introduction to this fascinating order or mammals, will learn about patterns of mating, movement, and mothering, will review a recently published paper by the class instructor (and what it means for our understanding on the evolution of fathering behavior), and end by discussing how we can use human-centered approaches to conserve primates, many of whom are critically endangered.