Overview
This book explores afresh the long-standing interest, and emphasis on, the 'special' capacities of primates. Some of the recent discoveries of the higher cognitive abilities of other mammals and also birds challenge the concept that primates are special and even the view that the cognitive ability of apes is more advanced than that of nonprimate mammals and birds. It is therefore timely to ask whether primates are, in fact, special and to do so from a broad range of perspectives. Divided into five sections this book deals with topics about higher cognition and how it is manifested in different species, and also considers aspects of brain structure that might be associated with complex behavior. It will become apparent to the reader that researchers are only at the beginning of the search to find out whether primates are special and, of course, by 'special' is meant not just different, which applies to all biological categories, but 'better' in the ephemeral sense of being more like us and being cognitively superior to all other species. This volume, voicing the opinions of some leading primatologists, ethologists, psychobiologists, neuroscientists and anthropologists, is not speaking from the standpoint of a political engagement with primates but of a scientific engagement with primates in relation to all other species.
Full Product Details
Author: Lesley J. Rogers ,
Gisela Kaplan
Publisher: Springer Science+Business Media
Imprint: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers
Edition: 2004 ed.
Volume: No. 3
Dimensions:
Width: 17.80cm
, Height: 3.20cm
, Length: 25.40cm
Weight: 0.952kg
ISBN: 9780306477270
ISBN 10: 0306477270
Pages: 386
Publication Date: 31 December 2003
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
From the reviews: Are primates superior? ! Comparative Vertebrate Cognition aims to answer this question or at least to consider and draw attention to what we know so far and assess the new research directions that are required so that we can answer the question in the future. ! Overall Comparative Vertebrate Cognition is a very enlightening and timely book. It is an interesting and thought-provoking attempt to draw attention to an area that is still in the early stages of its rise to scientific popularity ! . (Lucy Bates, Primate Eye, February, 2006) It is high time for primatologists to broaden their horizons in terms of learning about other animals ! . the editors provide a brief history of primatology and lay out their motivation for assembling this book. Rogers and Kaplan suggest that primates have been declared to be 'special' mainly as a political move ! . the book has opened some doors and will certainly promote the exchange of ideas by scholars studying the cognitive abilities of a variety of taxa. (Julia Fischer, Folia Primatologica, Vol. 76 (2), 2006)
From the reviews: Are primates superior? ! Comparative Vertebrate Cognition aims to answer this question or at least to consider and draw attention to what we know so far and assess the new research directions that are required so that we can answer the question in the future. ! Overall Comparative Vertebrate Cognition is a very enlightening and timely book. It is an interesting and thought-provoking attempt to draw attention to an area that is still in the early stages of its rise to scientific popularity ! . (Lucy Bates, Primate Eye, February, 2006) It is high time for primatologists to broaden their horizons in terms of learning about other animals ! . the editors provide a brief history of primatology and lay out their motivation for assembling this book. Rogers and Kaplan suggest that primates have been declared to be 'special' mainly as a political move ! . the book has opened some doors and will certainly promote the exchange of ideas by scholars studying the cognitive abilities of a variety of taxa. (Julia Fischer, Folia Primatologica, Vol. 76 (2), 2006)
From the reviews: <p> Are primates superior? a ] Comparative Vertebrate Cognition aims to answer this question or at least to consider and draw attention to what we know so far and assess the new research directions that are required so that we can answer the question in the future. a ] Overall Comparative Vertebrate Cognition is a very enlightening and timely book. It is an interesting and thought-provoking attempt to draw attention to an area that is still in the early stages of its rise to scientific popularity a ] . (Lucy Bates, Primate Eye, February, 2006) <p> It is high time for primatologists to broaden their horizons in terms of learning about other animals a ] . the editors provide a brief history of primatology and lay out their motivation for assembling this book. Rogers and Kaplan suggest that primates have been declared to be a ~speciala (TM) mainly as a political move a ] . the book has opened some doors and will certainly promote the exchange of ideas by scholars studying the cognitive abilities of a variety of taxa. (Julia Fischer, Folia Primatologica, Vol. 76 (2), 2006)
"From the reviews: ""Are primates superior? ! Comparative Vertebrate Cognition aims to answer this question or at least to consider and draw attention to what we know so far and assess the new research directions that are required so that we can answer the question in the future. ! Overall Comparative Vertebrate Cognition is a very enlightening and timely book. It is an interesting and thought-provoking attempt to draw attention to an area that is still in the early stages of its rise to scientific popularity ! ."" (Lucy Bates, Primate Eye, February, 2006) ""It is high time for primatologists to broaden their horizons in terms of learning about other animals ! . the editors provide a brief history of primatology and lay out their motivation for assembling this book. Rogers and Kaplan suggest that primates have been declared to be 'special' mainly as a political move ! . the book has opened some doors and will certainly promote the exchange of ideas by scholars studying the cognitive abilities of a variety of taxa."" (Julia Fischer, Folia Primatologica, Vol. 76 (2), 2006)"
