For what it's worth, I used Siiter twice, around the time that the new
Primate Center at the Philadelphia Zoo opened. I picked it mainly because
the last section focused on primates, and I ran the lab (just during that
time) mostly at the zoo, and more primate-oriented than I normally would.
For that context, it made a nice bridge, but even at that the book is very
lightweight. I don't think I'd use it again.
In the past, I've used Drickamer with fairly good success. What we need is a
genuine comparative book, one that doesn't treat the nature-nurture question
as an epiphenomenon! A persaon whose entire background is in biology or
behavioral ecology can't do justice to the psychological perspective any
more than a one-discipline psychologist can do justice to the "other half"
of a field that MUST be interdisciplinary to succeed.
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Michael J. Renner, Ph.D.
Interim Associate Vice President, Academic Affairs
Professor of Psychology
West Chester University
West Chester, PA 19383
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Telephone: 610-436-3310
Fax: 610-436-2763
http://www.wcupa.edu/_facstaff/facdev/
"The path of least resistance is always downhill."
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