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The evolution of thought : evolutionary origins of great ape intelligence /

Great apes are the most intelligent primates next to humans, but exactly how this intelligence arose has been debated for many years. Here, paleontologists, biologists, anthropologists, and psychologists are brought together to review the reasons for, and the nature of, great ape intelligence and it...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Russon, Anne E., Begun, David R.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Evolutionary reconstructions of great ape intelligence / Anne E. Russon
  • Enhanced cognitive capacity as a contingent fact of hominid phylogeny / David R. Begun
  • The manual skills and cognition that lie behind hominid tool use / Richard W. Byrne
  • The cognitive complexity of social organization and socialization in wild baboons and chimpanzees : guided participation, socializing interactions, and event representation / Sue Taylor Parker
  • Gestural communication in the great apes / Joanna Blake
  • Great ape cognitive systems / Anne E. Russon
  • What's in a brain? The question of a distinctive brain anatomy in great apes / Carol E. MacLeod
  • Life histories and the evolution of large brain size in great apes / Caroline Ross
  • Evolution of complex feeding techniques in primates : is this the origin of great ape intelligence? / Gen Yamakoshi
  • The special demands of great ape locomotion and posture / Kevin D. Hunt
  • Great ape social systems / Carel P. Van Schaik, Signe Preuschoft, and David P. Watts
  • Diet and foraging of the great apes : ecological constraints on their social organizations and implications for their divergence / Juichi Yamagiwa
  • Paleoenvironments and the evolution of adaptability in great apes / Richard Potts
  • Cranial evidence of the evolution of intelligence in fossil apes / David R. Begun and László Kordos
  • Life history and cognitive evolution in the apes / Jay Kelley
  • Fossil hominoid diets, extractive foraging, and the origins of great ape intelligence / Michelle Singleton
  • Paleontology, terrestriality, and the intelligence of great apes / Daniel L. Gebo
  • Body size and intelligence in hominoid evolution / Carol V. Ward, Mark Flinn, and David R. Begun
  • Evolutionary origins of great ape intelligence : an integrated view / Anne E. Russon and David R. Begun.