The 91猫先生 Faculty Lecture series will begin the 2018/2019 academic year with Distant Cousins: Spider Monkeys Provide a Lesson in Convergent Evolution, by Dr. Colleen Schaffner, chair of the Psychology Department, at 7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 20, in McDaniel Hall room 101.
Spider monkeys live in a social system very similar to our own. Community members聽know聽everyone, but are rarely altogether. They split and merge into subgroups of聽different individuals聽throughout each day. Thus, it may not be surprising they do many things like we do: greet when they meet, raid聽neighboring communities, adopt each other鈥檚 infants, kill each other and engage in homosexual behavior. 鈥淪pider monkeys are a lot like us,鈥 Schaffner said.
All ASU Faculty Lectures in the series are free and open to the public. Complimentary light refreshments will be offered. For further information on the series of lectures, contact Dr. Joel Givens, assistant professor of counselor education, at 719-587-7551 or joelgivens@adams.edu.
