How Monkeys See the World: Inside the Mind of Another Species

Cheney, Dorothy L.; Seyfarth, Robert M.

ISBN 10: 0226102467 / ISBN 13: 9780226102467

Edité par University of Chicago Press, 1992

The book is clean and shows minor shelf ware, N° de réf. du vendeur EBBV.0226102467.VG

Synopsis :

Cheney and Seyfarth enter the minds of vervet monkeys and other primates to explore the nature of primate intelligence and the evolution of cognition.

"This reviewer had to be restrained from stopping people in the street to urge them to read it: They would learn something of the way science is done, something about how monkeys see their world, and something about themselves, the mental models they inhabit."—Roger Lewin, Washington Post Book World

"A fascinating intellectual odyssey and a superb summary of where science stands."—Geoffrey Cowley, Newsweek

"A once-in-the-history-of-science enterprise."—Duane M. Rumbaugh, Quarterly Review of Biology

À propos de l'auteur: Robert M. Seyfarth is professor of psychology at the University of Pennsylvania. He is coauthor with Dorothy L. Cheney authors of How Monkeys See the World, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : How Monkeys See the World: Inside the Mind ...
Éditeur : University of Chicago Press
Date d'édition : 1992
Reliure : Couverture souple
Etat : very_good