How Monkeys See the World
Inside the Mind of Another Species
1st Edition
Published on 31. May 2024
375 pages
978-0-226-21852-6 (ISBN)
Description
Cheney and Seyfarth enter the minds of vervet monkeys and other primates to explore the nature of primate intelligence and the evolution of cognition."e,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."e,-Roger Lewin, Washington Post Book World"e,A fascinating intellectual odyssey and a superb summary of where science stands."e,-Geoffrey Cowley, Newsweek"e,A once-in-the-history-of-science enterprise."e,-Duane M. Rumbaugh, Quarterly Review of Biology
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- One. What is it Like to Be A Monkey?
- Two. Social Behavior
- Three. Social Knowledge
- Four. Vocal Communication
- Five. What the Vocalizations of Monkeys Mean
- Six. Summarizing the Mental Representations of Vocalizations and Social Relationships
- Seven. Deception
- Eight. Attribution
- Nine. Social and Nonsocial Intelligence
- Ten. How Monkeys See the World
- Appendix
- References
- Index
