The Evolution of Thought

Evolutionary Origins of Great Ape Intelligence

Anne E. Russon, David R. Begun

384 pages, parution le 08/04/2004

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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 the most comprehensive survey to date 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.

Contributors
Anne E. Russon, David R. Begun, Richard W. Byrne, Sue T. Parker, Joanna Blake, Carol E. MacLeod, Caroline Ross, Gen Yamakoshi, Kevin D. Hunt, Carel P. van Schaik, Signe Preuschoft, David P. Watts, Juichi Yamagiwa, Richard Potts, L. Kordos, Jay Kelley, Michelle Singleton, Daniel L. Gebo, Carol S. Ward, Mark Flinn

Sommaire

Evolutionary reconstructions of great ape intelligence
Enhanced cognitive capacity as a contingent fact of hominid phylogeny

Part I Cognition in living great apes
- The manual skills and cognition that lie behind hominid tool use
- The cognitive complexity of social organization and socialization in wild baboons and chimpanzees: guided participation, socializing interactions, and event representation
- Gestural communication in the great a
- Great ape cognitive syst
Part II Modern great ape adaptation
- What's in a brain? The question of a distinctive brain anatomy in great apes
- Life histories and the evolution of large brain size in great apes
- Evolution of complex feeding techniques in primates: is this the origin of great ape intelligence?
- The special demands of great ape locomotion and posture
- Great ape social syst
- Diet and foraging of the great apes: ecological constraints on their social organizations and implications for their divergence
Part III Fossil great ape adaptation
- Paleoenvironments and the evolution of adaptability in great apes
- Cranial evidence of the evolution of intelligence in fossil apes
- Life history and cognitive evolution in the apes
- Fossil hominoid diets, extractive foraging, and the origins of great ape intelligence
- Paleontology, terrestriality, and the intelligence of great apes
- Body size and intelligence in hominoid evolut
Part IV Integration
- Evolutionary origins of great ape intelligence: an integrated view

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Éditeur(s)	Cambridge University Press
Auteur(s)	Anne E. Russon, David R. Begun
Parution	08/04/2004
Nb. de pages	384
Format	19 x 25
Couverture	Broché
Poids	1035g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780521783354
ISBN13	978-0-521-78335-4