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The thinking ape : evolutionary origins of intelligence

Author: Richard W Byrne
Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, ©1995.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"'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  Read more...
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Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Byrne, Richard W.
Thinking ape.
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c1995
(OCoLC)622222823
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Richard W Byrne
ISBN: 019852188X 9780198521884 0198522657 9780198522652
OCLC Number: 30594081
Description: ix, 266 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: 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.
Responsibility: Richard Byrne.
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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."--BOOK JACKET.

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