Carel van Schaik

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Carolus Philippus “Carel” van Schaik (* 1953 ) is a Dutch zoologist and anthropologist who has been professor and director of the Institute and Museum of Anthropology at the University of Zurich since 2004 .

biography

Van Schaik studied biology at the University of Utrecht . Until 1984 he worked for the Netherlands Foundation for the Advancement of Tropical Research . After several years of research at Princeton University , van Schaik became an associate professor in 1989 at the Department of Biology, Anthropology and Anatomy at Duke University in Durham . From 2004 until his retirement in August 2018, he taught at the University of Zurich . The Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences named him its corresponding member in 2007.

Van Schaik research on primates, especially on the on the two Indonesian islands of Borneo and Sumatra living orangutans . He is interested in the social interactions of orangutans and the use of tools and the social skills that develop from them.

Publications

  • together with Kai Michel: The Diary of Mankind. What the Bible says about our evolution. Reinbek: Rowohlt, 2016, ISBN 978-3-498-06216-3 .
  • van Schaik et al .: Orangutan Cultures and the Evolution of Material Culture. In: Science , Volume 299, No. 5603, 2003, pp. 102-105, DOI: 10.1126 / science.1078004
  • van Schaik, CP (1982). Why are diurnal primates living in groups? Behavior , 87, 120-144.
  • van Schaik, CP, Deaner, RO and Merrill, MY (1999). The conditions for tool use in primates: implications for the evolution of material culture. Journal of Human Evolution , 36 (6), 719-741.
  • van Schaik, CP and Dunbar, RI (1990). The evolution of monogamy in large primates: A new hypothesis and some crucial tests. Behavior , 115 (1-2), 30-62.
  • van Schaik, CP and Kappeler, PM (1996). The social systems of gregarious lemurs: Lack of convergence with anthropoids due to evolutionary disequilibrium? Ethology Formerly Journal of Animal Psychology , 102 (11), 915-941.
  • van Schaik, CP and Kappeler, PM (1997). Infanticide risk and the evolution of male-female association in primates. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B, Biological Sciences , 264 (1388), 1687-1694.
  • van Schaik, CP and van Noordwijk, MA (1985). Evolutionary effect of the absence of felids on the social organization of the macaques on the island of Simeulue ( Macaca fascicularis fusca , Miller 1903). Folia Primatologica , 44 (3-4), 138-147.
  • van Schaik, CP, Van Noordwijk, MA, Warsono, B. and Sutriono, E. (1983). Party size and early detection of predators in Sumatran forest primates. Primates , 24 (2), 211-221.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Katrin Oller: The orangutan station of the University of Zurich has existed since 1994 - now there is no money. In: www.limmattalerzeitung.ch. November 5, 2018, accessed December 23, 2018 .
  2. Carel van Schaik. In: www.knaw.nl. Retrieved June 17, 2018 .
  3. ^ Groups make smart: Carel van Schaik , Die Zeit , February 13, 2009.
  4. ↑ Great ape with serviette: Researchers also observe cultural behavior in orangutans , Bild der Wissenschaft , January 3, 2003.