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Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?
Frans de Waal
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Paperback. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: PD. Dimension: 211 x 142. Weight in Grams: 280.
What separates your mind from an animal's? Maybe you think it's your ability to design tools, your sense of self, or your grasp of past and future-all traits that have helped us define ourselves as the planet's preeminent species. But in recent decades, these claims have eroded, or even been disproven outright, by a revolution in the study of animal cognition. Take the way octopuses use coconut shells as tools; elephants that classify humans by age, gender, and language; or Ayumu, the young male chimpanzee at Kyoto University whose flash memory puts that of humans to shame. Based on research ... Read more
What separates your mind from an animal's? Maybe you think it's your ability to design tools, your sense of self, or your grasp of past and future-all traits that have helped us define ourselves as the planet's preeminent species. But in recent decades, these claims have eroded, or even been disproven outright, by a revolution in the study of animal cognition. Take the way octopuses use coconut shells as tools; elephants that classify humans by age, gender, and language; or Ayumu, the young male chimpanzee at Kyoto University whose flash memory puts that of humans to shame. Based on research ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
WW Norton & Co
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780393353662
SKU
V9780393353662
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About Frans de Waal
Frans de Waal has been named one of Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People. The author of Our Inner Ape, among many other works, he is the C. H. Candler Professor in Emory University's Psychology Department and director of the Living Links Center at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center. He lives in Atlanta, Georgia.
Reviews for Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?
An entertaining, convincing case for assessing each species's intelligence on its own terms...not only full of information and thought-provoking, it's also a lot of fun to read.
Nancy Szokan - Washington Post A passionate and convincing case for the sophistication of nonhuman minds.
Alison Gopnik - The Atlantic Engaging and informative.
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Nancy Szokan - Washington Post A passionate and convincing case for the sophistication of nonhuman minds.
Alison Gopnik - The Atlantic Engaging and informative.
New ... Read more