This semester topic!!!

This semester I enjoy study the primate evolution, it is very interesting and I feel that it is my favorite topic of my career. I can (in future) infer about the ancestral conducts and anatomy of the early humans. The useful of the line of study lies in the reflection that we can make about the behavior of the actual population.

I think this topic maybe can contribute importantly to anthropology. Because one of the central topics of the anthropology is explain the behavior of our society, although in a small scale, but anyway is an important part of the answers of this discipline.

The observation of the apes and monkeys in their natural habitat makes me very happy and excite me very much, and many of the papers that I read this semester described this type of work. In the future I expect make this kind of labor.

My favorite monkeys are the atelidae, because when I see them I think that their voices were very similar to ours. The color of their skin is black and the behavior is very relax all the time.

An expert on my field

Rene Bobe is an expert on my field, biological anthropology. He has a doctor’s degree in biological anthropology, of the University of Washington.

His research seeks to understand the evolutionary processes in hominids and other mammals in relation to climate and environmental changes in Africa over the last 7 million years. For this, he conducted fieldwork in Ethiopia, Kenya and Mozambique, where he, and others investigators, collected and analyzed fossils from mammals that provide environmental data on geologic time scales. They have recently begun to develop paleontological work in Chilean Patagonia in search of the first primates who came to South America.

The research topics of Rene Bobe are ecology of hominids in Africa, origins of technology in Africa, evolution of African mammals, evolution of African ecosystems during the Cenozoic and origin and evolution of primates platirrinos in South America.

Rene Bobe is a teacher in FACSO. He teaches the course of primate evolution, physical anthropology, and human paleontology. He is very neat and he provides to his students with actualized and interesting papers.