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'Language' and Intelligence in Monkeys and Apes: Comparative Developmental Perspectives - Hardcover

 
9780521380287: 'Language' and Intelligence in Monkeys and Apes: Comparative Developmental Perspectives
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0521380286 ISBN 13: 9780521380287
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1990

Synopsis

This collection of articles is completely and explicitly devoted to the new field of comparative developmental evolutionary psychology--that is, to studies of primate abilities based on frameworks drawn from developmental psychology and evolutionary biology. These frameworks include Piagetian and neo-Piagetian models as well as psycholinguistic ones. The articles in this collection--originating in Japan, Spain, Italy, France, Canada, and the United States--represent a variety of backgrounds in human and nonhuman primate research. The authors focus on such areas as the nature of culture, intelligence, language, and imitation; the differences among species in mental abilities and developmental patterns; and the evolution of life histories and of mental abilities and their neurological bases.

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Book Description

Representing a variety of international backgrounds in primate research, this collection of articles is devoted to the new field of comparative developmental evolutionary psychology--that is, studies of primate abilities based on developmental psychology and evolutionary biology.

From the Back Cover

The editors conceived this book with the double purpose of introducing to a larger public a new approach to the study of animal abilities and of stimulating additional studies in the new research program described in this volume. The research program, which we call 'comparative developmental evolutionary psychology, ' is based on the application of frameworks from human developmental psychology and evolutionary biology to comparative studies of primate abilities.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication date
1990
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0521380286
ISBN 13 
9780521380287
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
608
Editor
Parker Sue Taylor, Gibson Kathleen Rita