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...There is no greater satisfaction then providing a test to animals and watching them succeed or fail, for even the latter tells us something profound about how they see the world,” says Hauser, who started the lab in 1992. During his time at Harvard he has conducted experiments in knowledge perception, acoustic recognition and concept formation, among other fields. He has published four books about primate behavior, taught at several universities in the United States and conducted field research in Uganda and in Puerto Rico, where he invites some of his students each year...
...wrote his thesis on the ability of rhesus monkeys to recognize numbers. “We found that primates can generally differentiate between one, two and three of something, but not between amounts greater than that,” Junge says. Junge and Flombaum, supervised by Hauser, figured this out by presenting the monkeys with varying numbers of grapes and watching as the animals decided which bunch to pursue...
...book itself represents—arguably—the most ambitious discussion of evolution since Charles Darwin’s The Origin of Species. Professor of Psychology Marc Hauser said in an interview that The Structure of Evolutionary Theory is “really two parts: one is an incredible history of evolutionary history, and in that sense very much like Ernst Mayr’s book The Growth of Biological Thought. Part two is really how [Gould] sees his own thinking in evolutionary biology fitting in with alternative perspectives.” Gould agrees with this synopsis, comparing...
...Hauser also commented that “what’s nice about [Gould’s] writing is that unlike an article written in Discover magazine, which is very much watered down, he doesn’t dumb it down, he treats you like an intelligent person. The sign of a good writer—of which he is one—is that [he doesn’t] need the jargon of the field to explain clearly what the concepts are.” Wrangham echoed these sentiments: “[Gould] is a thoroughly lively and engaging...
Along with changing focuses in education, the job descriptions of Harvard professors may shift a bit as well. Faculty members, as well as Summers, have expressed the desire for more student-faculty interaction. Hauser realizes that “there’s a great deal of intimidation. Students come in and see [professors] as monsters with three heads.” That needs to change, he says—and it will, because “Harvard is serious about...