Louise Barrett

Beyond the Brain

How Body and Environment Shape Animal and Human Minds

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

When a chimpanzee stockpiles rocks as weapons or when a frog sends out mating calls, we might easily assume these animals know their own motivations--that they use the same psychological mechanisms that we do. But as Beyond the Brain indicates, this is a dangerous assumption because animals have different evolutionary trajectories, ecological niche

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Princeton University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. März 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 237mm x 156mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 440g
• ISBN-13: 9780691165561
• ISBN-10: 0691165564
• Artikelnr.: 41954594

Autorenporträt

Louise Barrett is Professor of Psychology and Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) in Cognition, Evolution, and Behavior at the University of Lethbridge. She is the author of Baboons and the coauthor of Cousins, Walking with Cavemen, Human Evolutionary Psychology, and Evolutionary Psychology.

Rezensionen

"Beyond the Brain is an astonishingly good book, both substantive and fun to read." - Michael L. Anderson, Journal of Consciousness Studies