The dynamic dance : nonvocal communication in African great apes /

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Mother and infant negotiate over food; two high-status males jockey for power; female kin band together to get their way. It happens among humans and it happens among our closest living relatives in the animal kingdom, the great apes of Africa. In this eye-opening book, we see precisely how such eve...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: King, Barbara J., 1956- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2004.
Subjects:
Apes > Behavior > Africa.
Animal communication.
Animal Communication
Hominidae > psychology
Communication animale.
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Zoology > Primatology.
NATURE > Animals > Primates.
Animal communication
Apes > Behavior
Apen.
Non-verbale communicatie.
Africa.
Africa
Afrique.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • 1 Social Communication as Dance
  • 2 Gesture and Dynamic Systems Theory
  • 3 Gesture in Captive African Great Apes
  • 4 Gesture in Wild African Great Apes
  • 5 The Evolution of Gesture
  • 6 Imagined Futures
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index

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