The Ape and the Child
Author | : Winthrop Niles Kellogg |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 402 |
Release | : 1933 |
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Author | : Winthrop Niles Kellogg |
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Total Pages | : 402 |
Release | : 1933 |
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Author | : Sherwood Larned Washburn |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Science |
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Author | : David Premack |
Publisher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 413 |
Release | : 2014-01-27 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 1134671954 |
What is language and what is the nature of the intelligence that can acquire it? This volume, originally published in 1976, describes 10 years of research devoted to these questions. The author describes his programmatic research of decomposing language into atomic constituents, designing and applying training programs for teaching these to chimpanzees, and for teaching chimps major human ontological categories, as well as for interrogative, declarative, and imperative sentence forms. The volume details the progress from teaching apes simple predicates such as same–different, to more complex predicates such as if–then, and the success of the program led to the following questions directly related to intelligence: What made the training program effective? What is the cognitive equipment of the species which enables it to learn language? What does this tell us about human intelligence? The answers were suggested in terms of conceptual structure, representational capacity, memory and the ability to handle second-order relations. The results of this experimentation, which resulted in synonymy in some animals, shed light not only on the nature of language, but the nature of intelligence as well. One of the earliest ape language and intelligence studies, today this classic can be read and enjoyed again in its historical context.
Author | : Dale Peterson |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 348 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 0520243323 |
Annotation As Jane Goodall never fails to mention, "bush meat is the greatest conservation crisis in my lifetime." This book documents in text and photographs how wild animals in the Congo Basin, particularly the Great Apes but also chimpanzees, bonobos, and gorillas, are slaughtered and used for human consumption.
Author | : Gregory Berns |
Publisher | : Basic Books |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2017-09-05 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0465096255 |
"Dog lovers and neuroscientists should both read this important book." -- Dr. Temple Grandin What is it like to be a dog? A bat? Or a dolphin? To find out, neuroscientist and bestselling author Gregory Berns and his team did something nobody had ever attempted: they trained dogs to go into an MRI scanner -- completely awake -- so they could figure out what they think and feel. And dogs were just the beginning. In What It's Like to Be a Dog, Berns takes us into the minds of wild animals: sea lions who can learn to dance, dolphins who can see with sound, and even the now extinct Tasmanian tiger. Berns's latest scientific breakthroughs prove definitively that animals have feelings very much like we do -- a revelation that forces us to reconsider how we think about and treat animals. Written with insight, empathy, and humor, What It's Like to Be a Dog is the new manifesto for animal liberation of the twenty-first century.
Author | : Christopher Chabris |
Publisher | : Harmony |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2011-06-07 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 0307459667 |
Reading this book will make you less sure of yourself—and that’s a good thing. In The Invisible Gorilla, Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons, creators of one of psychology’s most famous experiments, use remarkable stories and counterintuitive scientific findings to demonstrate an important truth: Our minds don’t work the way we think they do. We think we see ourselves and the world as they really are, but we’re actually missing a whole lot. Chabris and Simons combine the work of other researchers with their own findings on attention, perception, memory, and reasoning to reveal how faulty intuitions often get us into trouble. In the process, they explain: • Why a company would spend billions to launch a product that its own analysts know will fail • How a police officer could run right past a brutal assault without seeing it • Why award-winning movies are full of editing mistakes • What criminals have in common with chess masters • Why measles and other childhood diseases are making a comeback • Why money managers could learn a lot from weather forecasters Again and again, we think we experience and understand the world as it is, but our thoughts are beset by everyday illusions. We write traffic laws and build criminal cases on the assumption that people will notice when something unusual happens right in front of them. We’re sure we know where we were on 9/11, falsely believing that vivid memories are seared into our minds with perfect fidelity. And as a society, we spend billions on devices to train our brains because we’re continually tempted by the lure of quick fixes and effortless self-improvement. The Invisible Gorilla reveals the myriad ways that our intuitions can deceive us, but it’s much more than a catalog of human failings. Chabris and Simons explain why we succumb to these everyday illusions and what we can do to inoculate ourselves against their effects. Ultimately, the book provides a kind of x-ray vision into our own minds, making it possible to pierce the veil of illusions that clouds our thoughts and to think clearly for perhaps the first time.
Author | : Frederick Tilney |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 674 |
Release | : 1928 |
Genre | : Apes |
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This work is a classic study of the evolution of the central nervous system in the higher mammals.
Author | : Frederick Tilney |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 674 |
Release | : 1928 |
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Author | : Jacques Pépin |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 395 |
Release | : 2021-01-21 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108487491 |
An updated edition of Jacques Pépin's acclaimed account of the events that transformed a chimpanzee virus into a global pandemic.