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First published in 1997, Primate Cognition was a groundbreaking and highly successful book that set the agenda for a new field of study. This second edition provides an extended and up-to-date survey of the field, divided into two volumes.
List of contents
- 1: General Introduction
- 2: Competition and Cooperation
- 3: Social Strategies and Communication
- 4: Social Learning and Culture
- 5: Theory of Mind and Metacognition
- 6: The Evolution of Primate Social Cognition
- 7: The Human Primate
About the author
Josep Call is a comparative psychologist specializing in primate cognition, Wardlaw Professor in the Evolutionary Origins of Mind at the University of St Andrews and Director of the Budongo (Chimpanzee) Research Unit (Edinburgh Zoo). Prior to his current post he was a lecturer (School of Biological Sciences, University of Liverpool) and a senior scientist (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology). Josep obtained a BA (Psychology, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona) and a Master and PhD (Psychology, Emory University). He has been elected fellow of the American Psychological Association, the Cognitive Science Society, the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the British Academy.
Michael Tomasello is Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Duke University, and emeritus director at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany. His research interests focus on processes of cooperation, communication, and cultural learning in human children and great apes.
Summary
First published in 1997, Primate Cognition was a groundbreaking and highly successful book that set the agenda for a new field of study. This second edition provides an extended and up-to-date survey of the field, divided into two volumes.
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"This book is a careful and critical review of the existing literature on the cognitive capacities of primates and other mammals and, at the same time, is a launching platform for a very important theory on what is unique for primates with respect to other mammals and what is unique for human beings with respect to nonhuman primates. . . . What makes this book appealing to any kind of reader and extremely useful as an educational tool is the way in which the material is organized, critically described, and summarized in useful tables and summaries. . . . In addition, the book has 50 pages of references, an authors' index, a species index, and a subject index, as well as a multitude of figures and photographs . . . I strongly recommend this marvellous book to ethologists, animal psychologists, developmental psychologists, cognitive scientists, and anyone just interested in primates."
