Beyond the Brain: How Body and Environment Shape Animal and Human Minds

by Louise Barrett

Book Overview

A new approach to understanding animal and human cognition

When a chimpanzee stockpiles rocks as weapons or when a frog sends out mating calls, we might easily assume these animals know their own motivations--that they use the same psychological mechanisms that we do. But as Beyond the Brain indicates, this is a dangerous assumption because animals have different evolutionary trajectories, ecological niches, and physical attributes...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691126445
• ISBN13: 9780691126449
• Release Date: April 2011
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.6"