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- catalog abstract ""'Intelligence' has long been considered to be a feature unique to human beings, giving us the capacity to imagine, to think, to deceive, to make complex connections between cause and effect, to devise elaborate strategies for solving problems. However, like all our other features, intelligence is a product of evolutionary change. Until recently, it was difficult to obtain evidence of this process from the frail testimony of a few bones and stone tools. It has become clear in the last 15 years that the origins of human intelligence can be investigated by the comparative study of primates, our closest non-human relatives, giving strong impetus to the case for an 'evolutionary psychology', the scientific study of the origins of the mind."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b7373050.
- catalog created "1995.".
- catalog date "1995".
- catalog date "1995.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1995.".
- catalog description ""'Intelligence' has long been considered to be a feature unique to human beings, giving us the capacity to imagine, to think, to deceive, to make complex connections between cause and effect, to devise elaborate strategies for solving problems. However, like all our other features, intelligence is a product of evolutionary change. Until recently, it was difficult to obtain evidence of this process from the frail testimony of a few bones and stone tools. It has become clear in the last 15 years that the origins of human intelligence can be investigated by the comparative study of primates, our closest non-human relatives, giving strong impetus to the case for an 'evolutionary psychology', the scientific study of the origins of the mind."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and indexes.".
- catalog description "Introduction: the limits of fossil evidence -- How to reconstruct evolutionary history -- What is intelligence and what is it for? How animals learn -- Why animals learn better in social groups -- Imitative behaviour of animals -- Understanding how things work -- Understanding minds: doing and seeing, knowing and thinking -- What use is a theory of mind? -- planning and thinking ahead -- Apes and language -- Food for thought -- Machiavellian intelligence -- Testing the theories -- Taking stock.".
- catalog extent "ix, 266 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Thinking ape.".
- catalog identifier "019852188X :".
- catalog identifier "0198522657 (pbk.) :".
- catalog isFormatOf "Thinking ape.".
- catalog issued "1995".
- catalog issued "1995.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press,".
- catalog relation "Thinking ape.".
- catalog subject "156/.3 20".
- catalog subject "1996 H-494".
- catalog subject "Animal intelligence.".
- catalog subject "BF 431 B995t 1995".
- catalog subject "BF431 .B96 1995".
- catalog subject "Biological Evolution.".
- catalog subject "Human evolution.".
- catalog subject "Intellect.".
- catalog subject "Intelligence.".
- catalog subject "Psychology, Comparative.".
- catalog subject "Social evolution.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction: the limits of fossil evidence -- How to reconstruct evolutionary history -- What is intelligence and what is it for? How animals learn -- Why animals learn better in social groups -- Imitative behaviour of animals -- Understanding how things work -- Understanding minds: doing and seeing, knowing and thinking -- What use is a theory of mind? -- planning and thinking ahead -- Apes and language -- Food for thought -- Machiavellian intelligence -- Testing the theories -- Taking stock.".
- catalog title "The thinking ape : evolutionary origins of intelligence / Richard Byrne.".
- catalog type "text".