Tool Use in Animals : Cognition and Ecology
ISBN: 9781107011199 | 1107011191
Format: HardcoverPublisher: Cambridge Univ Pr
Pub. Date: 4/22/2013
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Presentation of groundbreaking research on an extensive range of tool using animals, looking particularly at the evolution of cognitive abilities.
Appealing to both academic and public audiences, this collection of ground breaking research looks at an extensive range of tool using animals. Contributions from leading scholars examine the cognitive abilities and environmental factors that have shaped the evolution of tool use in animals as distantly related as corvids and primates.
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Appealing to both academic and public audiences, this collection of ground breaking research looks at an extensive range of tool using animals. Contributions from leading scholars examine the cognitive abilities and environmental factors that have shaped the evolution of tool use in animals as distantly related as corvids and primates.
The l... MORE
| List of contributors | |
| Cognition of Tool Use: | |
| Three ingredients for becoming a creative tool-user | |
| Ecology and cognition of tool use in chimpanzees | |
| Chimpanzees plan their tool use | |
| Comparative Cognition: | |
| Insight, imagination and invention: tool understanding in a non-tool-using corvid | |
| Why is tool use rare in animals? | |
| Understandin... MORE | |
| Why do woodpecker finches use tools? | |
| Ecology and Culture: | |
| The social context of chimpanzee tool use | |
| Orangutan tool use and the evolution of technology | |
| The EthoCebus project: stone tool use by wild capuchin monkeys | |
| Archaeological Perspectives: | |
| From pounding to knapping: how chimpanzees can help us model hominin lithics | |
| Early hominin social learning strategies underlying the use and production of bone and stone tools | |
| Perspectives on stone tools and cognition in the early paleolithic record | |
| Index | |
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