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Physical Description:340 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm print
Edition:First edition.
Publisher:New York : W. W. Norton & Company, [2016]
Content descriptions
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.
Summary, etc.:
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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