Primate Quest

Elizabeth Ferguson, Haiyi Huang, Vidia Anindhita, Ella Chung

Find out your primate identity by exploring how diet relates to brain size.

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1p9m–GDioOaEck2RyDgeK_TvUNypArtHtOGRHI604Dk/edit?usp=sharing

Description

Recent NYU research proposes that over evolutionary time, diet drives larger brain size in primates — not social pressures as originally thought. Learn how these findings might apply to humans, who like our primate cousins have exceptionally large brains, too! We will be exploring with a Brain interactive to have an introduction of the primates, and a Diet interactive as a fun game connected with Kinect to find out how primates find their food!

Classes

Playful Communication of Serious Research