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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 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 : Horace Bent
language : en
Publisher: White Lion Publishing
Release Date : 2009
Baboon Metaphysics written by Horace Bent and has been published by White Lion Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Titles of books categories.
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
The Metaphysics Of Apes
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Author : Raymond Corbey
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2005-03-14
The Metaphysics Of Apes written by Raymond Corbey and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-03-14 with Nature categories.
This book traces the discovery and interpretation of the human-like great apes and shows how the taboo-ridden animal-human boundary was challenged.
Chimpanzee Material Culture
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Author : William C. McGrew
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1992-10-22
Chimpanzee Material Culture written by William C. McGrew and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992-10-22 with Psychology categories.
The implications of tool-use behaviour in chimpanzees for reconstructing the evolutionary origins of human culture are discussed in this book.
The Idea Of The Brain
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Author : Matthew Cobb
language : en
Publisher: Profile Books
Release Date : 2020-03-12
The Idea Of The Brain written by Matthew Cobb and has been published by Profile Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-03-12 with Science categories.
Shortlisted for the 2020 Baillie Gifford Prize A New Statesman Book of the Year This is the story of our quest to understand the most mysterious object in the universe: the human brain. Today we tend to picture it as a computer. Earlier scientists thought about it in their own technological terms: as a telephone switchboard, or a clock, or all manner of fantastic mechanical or hydraulic devices. Could the right metaphor unlock the its deepest secrets once and for all? Galloping through centuries of wild speculation and ingenious, sometimes macabre anatomical investigations, scientist and historian Matthew Cobb reveals how we came to our present state of knowledge. Our latest theories allow us to create artificial memories in the brain of a mouse, and to build AI programmes capable of extraordinary cognitive feats. A complete understanding seems within our grasp. But to make that final breakthrough, we may need a radical new approach. At every step of our quest, Cobb shows that it was new ideas that brought illumination. Where, he asks, might the next one come from? What will it be?
The Social Origins Of Language
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Author : Robert M. Seyfarth
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2017-12-05
The Social Origins Of Language written by Robert M. Seyfarth and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-12-05 with Science categories.
How human language evolved from the need for social communication The origins of human language remain hotly debated. Despite growing appreciation of cognitive and neural continuity between humans and other animals, an evolutionary account of human language—in its modern form—remains as elusive as ever. The Social Origins of Language provides a novel perspective on this question and charts a new path toward its resolution. In the lead essay, Robert Seyfarth and Dorothy Cheney draw on their decades-long pioneering research on monkeys and baboons in the wild to show how primates use vocalizations to modulate social dynamics. They argue that key elements of human language emerged from the need to decipher and encode complex social interactions. In other words, social communication is the biological foundation upon which evolution built more complex language. Seyfarth and Cheney’s argument serves as a jumping-off point for responses by John McWhorter, Ljiljana Progovac, Jennifer E. Arnold, Benjamin Wilson, Christopher I. Petkov and Peter Godfrey-Smith, each of whom draw on their respective expertise in linguistics, neuroscience, philosophy, and psychology. Michael Platt provides an introduction, Seyfarth and Cheney a concluding essay. Ultimately, The Social Origins of Language offers thought-provoking viewpoints on how human language evolved.
Primate Neuroethology
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Author : Asif A. Ghazanfar
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2012-08-16
Primate Neuroethology written by Asif A. Ghazanfar and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-08-16 with Medical categories.
This edited volume is the first of its kind to bridge the epistemological gap between primate ethologists and primate neurobiologists. Leading experts in several fields review work ranging from primate foraging behavior to the neurophysiology of motor control, from vocal communication to the functions of the auditory cortex.