Reaching Into Thought: The Minds of the Great Apes

Book Overview

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 abilities--especially the lengthy...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521471680
• ISBN13: 9780521471688
• Release Date: July 1996
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 478 Pages
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.3"