Evolution of Thought: Evolutionary Origins of Great Ape Intelligence

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Author: Anne E. Russon

ISBN-10: 0521783356

ISBN-13: 9780521783354

Category: Pets - General & Miscellaneous

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Reviews the reasons for and the nature of great ape intelligence and its implications for human intelligence.

List of contributorsPreface1Evolutionary reconstructions of great ape intelligence12Enhanced cognitive capacity as a contingent fact of hominid phylogeny153The manual skills and cognition that lie behind hominid tool use314The cognitive complexity of social organization and socialization in wild baboons and chimpanzees : guided participation, socializing interactions, and event representations455Gestural communication in the great apes616Great ape cognitive systems767What's in a brain? The question of a distinctive brain anatomy in great apes1058Life histories and the evolution of large brain size in great apes1229Evolution of complex feeding techniques in primates : is this the origin of great ape intelligence?14010The special demands of great ape locomotion and posture17211Great ape social systems19012Diet and foraging of the great apes : ecological constraints on their social organizations and implications for their divergence21013Paleoenvironments and the evolution of adaptability in great apes23714Cranial evidence of the evolution of intelligence in fossil apes26015Life history and cognitive evolution in the apes28016Fossil hominoid diets, extractive foraging, and the origins of great ape intelligence29817Paleontology, terrestriality, and the intelligence of great apes32018Body size and intelligence in hominoid evolution33519Evolutionary origins of great ape intelligence : an integrated view353Author index369Species index373Subject index375