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The Primate Mind: Built to Connect with Other Minds
Frans B. M. de Waal
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Description for The Primate Mind: Built to Connect with Other Minds
Hardback. Prominent neuroscientists, psychologists, ethologists, and primatologists from around the world take a bottom-up approach to primate social behavior by investigating how the primate mind connects with other minds and exploring the shared neurological basis for imitation, joint action, and empathy as well as their evolutionary foundations. Editor(s): De Waal, Frans B. M.; Ferrari, Pier Francesco. Num Pages: 416 pages, 39 halftones, 19 line illustrations, 4 tables. BIC Classification: JMM; PSVP; PSVW79. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 168 x 37. Weight in Grams: 742.
“Monkey see, monkey do” may sound simple, but how an individual perceives and processes the behavior of another is one of the most complex and fascinating questions related to the social life of humans and other primates. In The Primate Mind, experts from around the world take a bottom-up approach to primate social behavior by investigating how the primate mind connects with other minds and exploring the shared neurological basis for imitation, joint action, cooperative behavior, and empathy.
In the past, there has been a tendency to ask all-or-nothing questions, such as whether primates possess a theory of mind, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
416
Condition
New
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674058040
SKU
V9780674058040
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About Frans B. M. de Waal
Frans B. M. de Waal is C. H. Candler Professor of Primate Behavior in the Psychology Department and Director of Living Links, part of the Yerkes Primate Center, Emory University. Pier Francesco Ferrari is Assistant Professor in Biology at the School of Medicine at the Università di Parma, Italy.
Reviews for The Primate Mind: Built to Connect with Other Minds
Presents an authoritative, surprising and enriching picture of our monkey and ape cousins...The Primate Mind suggests that it may not be the capacity to imitate, but the motivation to do so that sets us apart from other animals. Like all good suggestions, this opens the door to more questions about the mechanisms and evolution of such motivation
and, ultimately, about how ... Read more
and, ultimately, about how ... Read more