Reaching into thought. The minds of the great apes
Editorial CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Festland Spanien
- Verlag CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
- ISBN13 9780521644969
- ISBN10 0521644968
- Gegenstandsart Buch
- Buchseiten 464
- Jahr der Ausgabe 1999
- Bindung Gebunden
Abschnitte
EthologieReaching into thought. The minds of the great apes
Editorial CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Festland Spanien
Buch Details
In this book, field and laboratory researchers show that the Great Apes are capable of thinking at symbolic levels, traditionally considered uniquely human. They show these high-level abilities in both social and ecological domains, including tool use, imitation, pretense, self-awareness, deception, consolation, teaching and proto-culture itself. Here, contributors emphasize the mechanisms involved in building these abilities--especially the lengthy developmental and "enculturation" processes--suggesting changes to current views on how primate and human intelligence have evolved. Researchers and professionals in the fields of primatology, animal behavior, anthropology, linguistics, and cognitive psychology will find much useful information in this book.