Anne E. Russon / David R. Begun (eds.)

The Evolution of Thought

Evolutionary Origins of Great Ape Intelligence
Herausgeber: Begun, David R.; Russon, Anne E.

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Produktbeschreibung

Research on the evolution of higher intelligence rarely combines data from fields as diverse as paleontology and psychology. In this volume we seek to do just that, synthesizing the approaches of hominoid cognition, psychology, language studies, ecology, evolution, paleoecology and systematics toward an understanding of great ape intelligence. Leading scholars from all these fields have been asked to evaluate the manner in which each of their topics of research inform our understanding of the evolution of intelligence in great apes and humans. The ideas thus assembled represent a comprehensive survey of the various causes and consequences of cognitive evolution in great apes. The Evolution of Thought will therefore be an essential reference for graduate students and researchers in evolutionary psychology, paleoanthropology and primatology.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 396
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Mai 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 189mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 763g
• ISBN-13: 9780521039925
• ISBN-10: 0521039924
• Artikelnr.: 22897468

Autorenporträt

Anne E. Russon is a Professor of Psychology at Glendon College of York University in Toronto, Canada.
David Begun is a Professor of Anthropology at the University of Toronto.

Inhaltsangabe

List of contributors; Preface; 1. Evolutionary reconstructions of great ape
intelligence Anne E. Russon; 2. Enhanced cognitive capacity as a contingent
fact of hominid phylogeny David R. Begun; Part I. Cognition in Living Great
Apes: Introduction Anne E. Russon: 3. The manual skills and cognition that
lie behind hominid tool use Richard W. Byrne; 4. The cognitive complexity
of social organisation and socialisation in wild baboons and chimpanzees:
guided participation, socialising interactions and event representation Sue
Taylor Parker; 5. Gestural communication in the great apes Joanna Blake; 6.
Great ape cognitive systems Anne E. Russon; Part II. Modern Great Ape
Adaptation: Introduction Anne E. Russon: 7. What's in a brain? The question
of a distinctive brain anatomy in great apes Carol E. MacLeod; 8. Life
histories and the evolution of large brain size in great apes Caroline
Ross; 9. Evolution of complex feeding techniques in primates: is this the
origin of great ape intelligence? Gen Yamakoshi; 10. The special demands of
great ape locomotion and posture Kevin D. Hunt; 11. Great ape social
systems Carel P. van Schaik, Signe Preuschoft and David P. Watts; 12. Diet
and foraging of the great apes: ecological constraints on their social
organisations and implications for their divergence Juichi Yamagiwa; Part
III. Fossil Great Ape Adaptations: Introduction David R. Begun: 13.
Paleoenvironments and the evolution of adaptability in great apes Richard
Potts; 14. Cranial evidence and the evolution of intelligence in fossil
apes David R. Begun and László Kordos; 15. Life history and cognitive
evolution in the apes Jay Kelley; 16. Fossil hominoid diets, extractive
foraging and the origins of great ape intelligence Michelle Singleton; 17.
Paleontology, terrestriality and the intelligence of great apes Daniel L.
Gebo; 18. Body size and intelligence in hominoid evolution Carol V. Ward,
Mark Flinn and David R. Begun; Part IV. Integration: 19. Evolutionary
origins of great ape intelligence: an integrated view Anne E. Russon and
David R. Begun; Author index; Species index; Subject index.