Comparative Vertebrate Cognition: Are Primates Superior to Non-Primates?

by Richard J. Andrew, Gisela Kaplan, Leslie J. Rogers

Book 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0306477270
• ISBN13: 9780306477270
• Release Date: December 2003
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 386 Pages
• Weight: 2.07 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.6" x 9.8"