Reaching into Thought: The Minds of the Great Apes

by Edited by Anne E. Russon , Kim A. Bard , Sue Taylor Parker

• ISBN13: 9780521644969
• ISBN10: 0521644968
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-01-13
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

What special qualities of mind set the great apes apart from other nonhuman primates, and indeed from ourselves? In this book, field and laboratory researchers show that the great apes have high level abilities in both social and ecological domains, including tool use, pretense, self-awareness, deception, consolation, teaching and culture itself. Great apes are also shown to be capable of thinking at symbolic levels, traditionally considered to be uniquely human. Here, the mechanisms involved in building these abilities - especially the lengthy developmental and 'enculturation' processes - are emphasized, showing how new discoveries are changing views on how primates and human intelligence evolved. This book is for anyone interested in current research and theoretical views of great ape cognition.

Table of Contents

List of contributors
Exploring the minds of the great apes: Issues and controversies	1	(22)
Anne E. Russon
Kim A. Bard
PART ONE The scope of great ape intelligence
Chimpanzees and capuchin monkeys: Comparative cognition	23	(34)
James R. Anderson
Acting and understanding: Tool use revisited through the mind of capuchin monkeys	57	(23)
Elisabetta Visalberghi
Luca Limongelli
Consolation, reconciliation, and a possible cognitive difference between macaques and chimpanzees	80	(31)
Frans B. M. De Wall
Filippo Aureli
The misunderstood ape: Cognitive skills of the gorilla	111	(20)
Richard W. Byrne
Ostensive behavior in great apes: The role of eye contact	131	(21)
Juan Carlos Gomez
Imitation in everyday use: Matching and rehearsal in the spontaneous imitation of rehabilitant orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus)	152	(25)
Anne E. Russon
``More is less'': The elicitation of rule-governed resource distribution in chimpanzees	177	(13)
Sarah T. Boysen
Tool-using behavior in wild Pan paniscus: Social and ecological considerations	190	(21)
Ellen J. Ingmanson
Comparison of chimpanzee material culture between Bossou and Nimba, West Africa	211	(24)
Tetsuro Matsuzawa
Gen Yamakoshi
PART TWO Organization of great ape intelligence: Development, culture, and evolution
Influences on development in infant chimpanzees: Enculturation, temperament, and cognition	235	(22)
Kim A. Bard
Kathryn H. Gardner
Heterochrony and the evolution of primate cognitive development	257	(21)
Jonas Langer
Simon says: The development of imitation in an enculturated orangutan	278	(22)
H. Lyn Miles
Robert W. Mitchell
Stephen E. Harper
Imitation, pretense, and mindreading: Secondary representation in comparative primatology and developmental psychology?	300	(25)
Andrew Whiten
Self-awareness and self-knowledge in humans, apes, and monkeys	325	(23)
Daniel Hart
Mary Pat Karmel
Apprenticeship in tool-mediated extractive foraging: The origins of imitation, teaching, and self-awareness in great apes	348	(23)
Sue Taylor Parker
The effect of humans on the cognitive development of apes	371	(33)
Josep Call
Michael Tomasello
Three approaches for assessing chimpanzee culture	404	(26)
Christophe Boesch
On the wild side of culture and cognition in the great apes	430	(21)
Sue Taylor Parker
Anne E. Russon
Index	451