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Reaching into Thought: The Minds of the Great Apes
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Reaching into Thought: The Minds of the Great Apes
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Reaching into Thought: The Minds of the Great Apes
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In this book, field and laboratory researchers show that the Great Apes are capable of thinking at symbolic levels, traditionally considered uniquely human. They show these high-level abilities in both social and ecological domains, including tool use, imitation, pretense, self-awareness, deception, consolation, teaching and proto-culture itself. Here, contributors emphasize the mechanisms involved in building these abilitiesespecially the lengthy developmental and "enculturation" processessuggesting changes to current views on how primate and human intelligence have evolved. Researchers and professionals in the fields of primatology, animal behavior, anthropology, linguistics, and cognitive psychology will find much useful information in this book.