Are we smart enough to know how smart animals are? / Frans de Waal ; with drawings by the author.
What separates your mind from that of an animal? Is it the ability to design tools; a sense of self; or the grasp of past and future? In recent decades these claims have eroded, or even been disproven outright, by a revolution in the study of animal cognition. Waal explores both the scope and the depth of animal intelligence, offering a firsthand account of how science has stood traditional behaviorism on its head by revealing how smart animals really are, and how we've underestimated their abilities for too long.
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- ISBN: 9780393246186
- ISBN: 0393246183
- Physical Description: 340 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Edition: First edition
- Publisher: New York : W. W. Norton & Company, [2016].
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- Bibliography, etc. Note:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-318) and index.
- Formatted Contents Note:
- Magic wells -- A tale of two schools -- Cognitive ripples -- Talk to me -- The measure of all things -- Social skills -- Time will tell -- Of mirrors and jars -- Evolutionary cognition.
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What separates your mind from that of an animal? Is it the ability to design tools; a sense of self; or the grasp of past and future? In recent decades these claims have eroded, or even been disproven outright, by a revolution in the study of animal cognition. Waal explores both the scope and the depth of animal intelligence, offering a firsthand account of how science has stood traditional behaviorism on its head by revealing how smart animals really are, and how we've underestimated their abilities for too long.
