Are we smart enough to know how smart animals are? /
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 de...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
W.W. Norton & Company,
2016.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: | 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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| Physical Description: | 340 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-318) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780393246186 0393246183 9781783783045 1783783044 |