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Baboon Metaphysics
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Author : Dorothy L. Cheney
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2008-08-04
Baboon Metaphysics written by Dorothy L. Cheney and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-08-04 with Science categories.
In 1838 Charles Darwin jotted in a notebook, “He who understands baboon would do more towards metaphysics than Locke.” Baboon Metaphysics is Dorothy L. Cheney and Robert M. Seyfarth’s fascinating response to Darwin’s challenge. Cheney and Seyfarth set up camp in Botswana’s Okavango Delta, where they could intimately observe baboons and their social world. Baboons live in groups of up to 150, including a handful of males and eight or nine matrilineal families of females. Such numbers force baboons to form a complicated mix of short-term bonds for mating and longer-term friendships based on careful calculations of status and individual need. But Baboon Metaphysics is concerned with much more than just baboons’ social organization—Cheney and Seyfarth aim to fully comprehend the intelligence that underlies it. Using innovative field experiments, the authors learn that for baboons, just as for humans, family and friends hold the key to mitigating the ill effects of grief, stress, and anxiety. Written with a scientist’s precision and a nature-lover’s eye, Baboon Metaphysics gives us an unprecedented and compelling glimpse into the mind of another species. “The vivid narrative is like a bush detective story.”—Steven Poole, Guardian “Baboon Metaphysics is a distillation of a big chunk of academic lives. . . . It is exactly what such a book should be—full of imaginative experiments, meticulous scholarship, limpid literary style, and above all, truly important questions.”—Alison Jolly, Science “Cheney and Seyfarth found that for a baboon to get on in life involves a complicated blend of short-term relationships, friendships, and careful status calculations. . . . Needless to say, the ensuing political machinations and convenient romantic dalliances in the quest to become numero uno rival the bard himself.”—Science News “Cheney and Seyfarth’s enthusiasm is obvious, and their knowledge is vast and expressed with great clarity. All this makes Baboon Metaphysics a captivating read. It will get you thinking—and maybe spur you to travel to Africa to see it all for yourself.”—Asif A. Ghazanfar, Nature “Through ingenious playback experiments . . . Cheney and Seyfarth have worked out many aspects of what baboons used their minds for, along with their limitations. Reading a baboon’s mind affords an excellent grasp of the dynamics of baboon society. But more than that, it bears on the evolution of the human mind and the nature of human existence.”—Nicholas Wade, New York Times
Baboon Metaphysics
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Author : Dorothy L. Cheney
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2008-09-15
Baboon Metaphysics written by Dorothy L. Cheney and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-09-15 with Science categories.
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Baboon Perspectives On Early Human Ancestors
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Author : Glenn E. King
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2024-09-04
Baboon Perspectives On Early Human Ancestors written by Glenn E. King and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-09-04 with Social Science categories.
Baboon Perspectives on Early Human Ancestors brings together the most recent information on the behavior and ecology of Papio baboons and early hominins. Building on a long tradition and integrating recent developments, it discusses the ways that baboon behavior can enhance our understanding of our early ancestors. This approach augments interpretation of the archeological record and provides hypotheses for the gaps in the record and for the millions of years before the record began. Baboon behavior complements the widely used chimpanzee models, but also generates competing hypotheses. Among the many topics covered in the book are foraging and predator defense; multi-level societies and male-female relationships; social and ecological cognition; and communication and the roots of language.
Almost Human
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Author : Shirley C. Strum
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2001-09-15
Almost Human written by Shirley C. Strum and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-09-15 with Nature categories.
"In the same way that Jane Goodall's pioneering study of chimpanzees revealed their likeness to humans, Strum's work shows how, contrary to the popular image and the scientific evidence of the time, the more distantly related baboons are just as socially savvy.
How Monkeys See The World
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Author : Dorothy L. Cheney
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 1990
How Monkeys See The World written by Dorothy L. Cheney and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Nature categories.
Cheney and Seyfarth enter the minds of vervet monkeys and other primates to explore the nature of primate intelligence and the evolution of cognition. "This reviewer had to be restrained from stopping people in the street to urge them to read it: They would learn something of the way science is done, something about how monkeys see their world, and something about themselves, the mental models they inhabit."—Roger Lewin, Washington Post Book World "A fascinating intellectual odyssey and a superb summary of where science stands."—Geoffrey Cowley, Newsweek "A once-in-the-history-of-science enterprise."—Duane M. Rumbaugh, Quarterly Review of Biology
Rock Water Life
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Author : Lesley Green
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2020-03-20
Rock Water Life written by Lesley Green and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-03-20 with Nature categories.
In Rock | Water | Life Lesley Green examines the interwoven realities of inequality, racism, colonialism, and environmental destruction in South Africa, calling for environmental research and governance to transition to an ecopolitical approach that could address South Africa's history of racial oppression and environmental exploitation. Green analyzes conflicting accounts of nature in environmental sciences that claim neutrality amid ongoing struggles for land restitution and environmental justice. Offering in-depth studies of environmental conflict in contemporary South Africa, Green addresses the history of contested water access in Cape Town; struggles over natural gas fracking in the Karoo; debates about decolonizing science; the potential for a politics of soil in the call for land restitution; urban baboon management; and the consequences of sending sewage to urban oceans.
A User S Guide To Thought And Meaning
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Author : Ray Jackendoff
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2012-02-23
A User S Guide To Thought And Meaning written by Ray Jackendoff and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-02-23 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
A User's Guide to Thought and Meaning presents a profound and arresting integration of the faculties of the mind - of how we think, speak, and see the world. Ray Jackendoff starts out by looking at languages and what the meanings of words and sentences actually do. He shows that meanings are more adaptive and complicated than they're commonly given credit for, and he is led to some basic questions: How do we perceive and act in the world? How do we talk about it? And how can the collection of neurons in the brain give rise to conscious experience? As it turns out, the organization of language, thought, and perception does not look much like the way we experience things, and only a small part of what the brain does is conscious. Jackendoff concludes that thought and meaning must be almost completely unconscious. What we experience as rational conscious thought - which we prize as setting us apart from the animals - in fact rides on a foundation of unconscious intuition. Rationality amounts to intuition enhanced by language. Written with an informality that belies both the originality of its insights and the radical nature of its conclusions, A User's Guide to Thought and Meaning is the author's most important book since the groundbreaking Foundations of Language in 2002.
Mammal Societies
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Author : Tim Clutton-Brock
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2016-04-25
Mammal Societies written by Tim Clutton-Brock and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-25 with Science categories.
The book aims to integrate our understanding of mammalian societies into a novel synthesis that is relevant to behavioural ecologists, ecologists, and anthropologists. It adopts a coherent structure that deals initially with the characteristics and strategies of females, before covering those of males, cooperative societies and hominid societies. It reviews our current understanding both of the structure of societies and of the strategies of individuals; it combines coverage of relevant areas of theory with coverage of interspecific comparisons, intraspecific comparisons and experiments; it explores both evolutionary causes of different traits and their ecological consequences; and it integrates research on different groups of mammals with research on primates and humans and attempts to put research on human societies into a broader perspective.
How To Find A Black Cat In A Dark Room Especially When There Is No Cat
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Author : Jacob Burak
language : en
Publisher: Watkins
Release Date : 2017-10-19
How To Find A Black Cat In A Dark Room Especially When There Is No Cat written by Jacob Burak and has been published by Watkins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-19 with Body, Mind & Spirit categories.
Drawing on his personal story, interviews and the latest scientific research Jacob Burak is on a quest ‘to reduce the amount of noise in his life’, the noise that comes from constantly comparing ourselves to others; the need to belong; the urge to achieve; and the anxiety and uncertainty of life itself. Burak draws on his experiences as a highly successful businessman and on in-depth interviews to explain how we perceive, process and amplify ‘noise’. More importantly, he helps us identify the sources of these disturbances and the steps we can take to suppress them, so that we can lead more peaceful, more productive and happier lives. Subjects covered include: What are the ten rules for happiness that are entirely under our control? Why do negative events affect us more than positive events? Why do smart people make stupid mistakes? What distinguishes between bureaucrats and entrepreneurs? What are the psychological differences between liberals and conservatives? In what circumstances is it right to surrender our privacy? Does it pay to trust people?
Macbeth
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Author : John Drakakis
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2013-09-12
Macbeth written by John Drakakis and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09-12 with Literary Criticism categories.
"The tragedy of Macbeth is filled with blood and darkness, and is a morally and politically complex study of ambition, power and guilt. This guide offers practical aids to study and fresh new ways of responding to the play's ever-expanding critical possibilities" -- Back cover.