Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?
New York : W. W. Norton & Company, [2016]
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Description: 340 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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.
Contents:
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.
ISBN:
9780393246186
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-318) and index.