Social Intelligence and Interaction: Expressions and implications of the social bias in human intelligence - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521459494 ISBN 13: 9780521459495

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1995

Synopsis

There is a growing view that intelligence evolved as a product of social independence and that intelligence was linked to the use of spoken language. Taking as their starting-point the social production of intelligence and of language, scholars from a range of disciplines are beginning to rethink fundamental questions about human evolution, language and social institutions. In this volume, anthropologists, linguists, primatologists and pychologists come together to work on this new frontier of research.

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Book Description:

There is a growing view that intelligence evolved as a product of social independence linked to the use of spoken language. In this volume, anthropologists, linguists, primatologists and psychologists combine efforts to resolve questions on human evolution, language and social institutions.

Review:

"The chapters cover contributions from a variety of disciplines and include much anthropological detail... a fascinating collection to dip into..." Peter K. Smith, Human Ethology Bulletin

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0521459494
• ISBN 13: 9780521459495
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 324
• Editor: Goody Esther N.