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Originally Posted by Cal-Gal
Ah, the Monkey Porn class. Biopolitics with Dr. Tom was easily one of my favorites in University....lots of reading though.
I'm curious what texts books you had to read?? When I took the class it was Selfish Gene, Dark Side of Man, Chimpanzee Politics and Guns, Germs, and Steel. Did you have to read a separate book for the term paper?? I find the course material fascinating, so that's why I'm curious.
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It's easily the best political science course in the faculty. I wouldn't consider a UofC poli sci degree a real education if the student hadn't taken this class. Just a great, great course. The Ghigleri book was so amazing, gave me chills. Freaky stuff. Flanagan is by far the best professor in the faculty as well, I got him to be my Honours supervisor for next year. He's incredibly helpful, what a guy.
We read those books, except we replaced the Chimp book with a more recent De Waal book, Our Inner Ape. It has more up-to-date research on conflict resolution.
Yeah, for the paper, we had to read another book and then compare it to the course material. I'm reading Robert Ardrey's, The Territorial Imperative. Basically, the first book that punched a hole in the "nurture" argument by contemporary sociology and anthropology. It's just that his biology is way out of whack. Dawkins gives him a good slap in"The Selfish Gene".