Reaching Into Thought: The Minds of the Great Apes

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Cambridge University Press (1996)
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In this book, field and laboratory researchers show that the Great Apes are capable of thinking at symbolic levels, traditionally considered uniquely human.

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0521644968   0521471680   9780521644969

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Consolation, reconciliation, and a possible cognitive difference between macaques and chimpanzees.Frans Bm de Waal & Filippo Aureli
Self-awareness and self-knowledge in humans, apes, and monkeys.Daniel Hart & M. P. Karmel
Exploring the minds of the great apes: Issues and controversies.  (pages 1--22)Anne E. Russon & K. A. Bard
Chimpanzees and capuchin monkeys: comparative cognition.  (pages 23--56)James R. Anderson
Acting and understanding: Tool use revisited through the minds of capuchin monkeys.  (pages 57--79)Elisabetta Visalberghi & Luca Limongelli
Ostensive behavior in great apes: The role of eye contact.  (pages 131--151)Juan-Carlos Gomez
An everyday view of imitation: Identifying and characterizing true imitation in rehabilitant orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus).  (pages 152--176)A. E. Russon
Imitation in everyday use: matching and rehearsal in the spontaneous imitation of rehabilitant orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus).  (pages 152--176)Anne E. Russon
Tool-using behavior in wild Pan paniscus: social and ecological considerations.  (pages 190--210)Ellen J. Ingmanson
Comparison of chimpanzee material culture between Bossou and Nimba, West Africa.  (pages 211--232)Tetsuro Matsuzawa & Gen Yamakoshi
Influences on development in infant chimpanzees: Enculturation, temperament, and cognition.  (pages 235--256)Kim A. Bard & Kathryn H. Gardner
Imitation, pretense and self-awareness in a signing orangutan.  (pages 278--299)H. L. Miles, R. W. Mitchell & S. Harper
Simon says: The development of imitation in an enculturated orangutan.  (pages 278--299)H. Lyn Miles, Robert W. Mitchell & Stephen E. Harper
Imitation, pretence and mindreading: secondary representation in comparative primatology and developmental psychology.  (pages 300--324)Andrew Whiten
The effect of humans on the cognitive development of apes.  (pages 371--403)Josep Call & Michael Tomasello
Three approaches for assessing chimpanzee culture.  (pages 404--429)Christophe Boesch
On the wild side of culture and cognition in the great apes.  (pages 430--450)S. T. Parker & Anne E. Russon
Simon says: The development of imitation in a signing orangutan.  (pages 521--562)H. L. Miles, R. W. Mitchell & S. E. Harper

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