Reaching Into Thought: The Minds of the Great ApesAnne E. Russon, Kim A. Bard, Sue Taylor Parker What special qualities of mind set the great apes apart from other nonhuman primates, and indeed from ourselves? In this book, field and laboratory researchers show that the great apes have high level abilities in both social and ecological domains, including tool use, pretense, self-awareness, deception, consolation, teaching and culture itself. Great apes are also shown to be capable of thinking at symbolic levels, traditionally considered to be uniquely human. Here, the mechanisms involved in building these abilities - especially the lengthy developmental and 'enculturation' processes - are emphasized, showing how new discoveries are changing views on how primates and human intelligence evolved. This book is for anyone interested in current research and theoretical views of great ape cognition. |
Contents
Exploring the minds of the great apes Issues and controversies | 1 |
The scope of great ape intelligence | 21 |
Chimpanzees and capuchin monkeys Comparative cognition | 23 |
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Consolation reconciliation and a possible cognitive difference between macaques and chimpanzees | 80 |
The misunderstood ape Cognitive skills of the gorilla | 111 |
Ostensive behavior in great apes The role of eye contact | 131 |
Imitation in everyday use Matching and rehearsal in the spontaneous imitation of rehabilitant orangutans Pongo pygmaeus | 152 |
Influences on development in infant chimpanzees Enculturation temperament and cognition | 235 |
Heterochrony and the evolution of primate cognitive development | 257 |
Simon says The development of imitation in an enculturated orangutan | 278 |
Imitation pretense and mindreading Secondary representation in comparative primatology and developmental psychology? | 300 |
Selfawareness and selfknowledge in humans apes and monkeys | 325 |
Apprenticeship in toolmediated extractive foraging The origins of imitation teaching and selfawareness in great apes | 348 |
The effect of humans on the cognitive development of apes | 371 |
Three approaches for assessing chimpanzee culture | 404 |
More is less The elicitation of rulegoverned resource distribution in chimpanzees | 177 |
Toolusing behavior in wild Pan paniscus Social and ecological considerations | 190 |
Comparison of chimpanzee material culture between Bossou and Nimba West Africa | 211 |
Organization of great ape intelligence Development culture and evolution | 233 |
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