Lesley J. Rogers,Gisela Kaplan's Comparative Vertebrate Cognition: Are Primates Superior to PDF

By Lesley J. Rogers,Gisela Kaplan

This e-book explores afresh the long-standing curiosity, and emphasis on, the `special' capacities of primates. many of the fresh discoveries of the better cognitive talents of alternative mammals and in addition birds problem the concept primates are specific or even the view that the cognitive skill of apes is extra complex than that of nonprimate mammals and birds. it really is as a result well timed to invite no matter if primates are, in truth, unique and to take action from a large variety of views. Divided into 5 sections this booklet bargains with issues approximately larger cognition and the way it really is manifested in several species, and likewise considers facets of mind constitution that would be linked to complicated habit.

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