The evolution of thought : evolutionary origins of great ape intelligence / edited by Anne E. Russon, David R. Begun.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Russon, Anne E., editor.

Begun, David R., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Apes--Evolution.

Apes.

Apes--Psychology.

Animal intelligence.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 384 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 a comprehensive survey 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.

Contents:

Evolutionary reconstructions of great ape intelligence / Anne E. Russon

Enhanced cognitive capacity as a contingent fact of hominid phylogeny / David R. Begun

The manual skills and cognition that lie behind hominid tool use / Richard W. Byrne

The cognitive complexity of social organization and socialization in wild baboons and chimpanzees : guided participation, socializing interactions, and event representation / Sue Taylor Parker

Gestural communication in the great apes / Joanna Blake

Great ape cognitive systems / Anne E. Russon

What's in a brain? The question of a distinctive brain anatomy in great apes / Carol E. MacLeod

Life histories and the evolution of large brain size in great apes / Caroline Ross

Evolution of complex feeding techniques in primates : is this the origin of great ape intelligence? / Gen Yamakoshi

The special demands of great ape locomotion and posture / Kevin D. Hunt

Great ape social systems / Carel P. Van Schaik, Signe Preuschoft, and David P. Watts

Diet and foraging of the great apes : ecological constraints on their social organizations and implications for their divergence / Juichi Yamagiwa

Paleoenvironments and the evolution of adaptability in great apes / Richard Potts

Cranial evidence of the evolution of intelligence in fossil apes / David R. Begun and László Kordos

Life history and cognitive evolution in the apes / Jay Kelley

Fossil hominoid diets, extractive foraging, and the origins of great ape intelligence / Michelle Singleton

Paleontology, terrestriality, and the intelligence of great apes / Daniel L. Gebo

Body size and intelligence in hominoid evolution / Carol V. Ward, Mark Flinn, and David R. Begun

Evolutionary origins of great ape intelligence : an integrated view / Anne E. Russon and David R. Begun.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

1-107-14335-7

1-280-47762-8

9786610477623

0-511-19501-X

0-511-19567-2

0-511-19358-0

0-511-32421-9

0-511-54229-1

0-511-19432-3

OCLC:

171138707