Baboon Metaphysics: The Evolution of a Social Mind
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| Rating | : | 4.52 (977 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0226102440 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 358 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-11-16 |
| Language | : | English |
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It will get you thinking—and maybe spur you to travel to Africa to see it all for yourself.”—Asif A. It is exactly what such a book should be—full of imaginative experiments, meticulous scholarship, limpid literary style, and above all, truly important questions.”—Alison Jolly, Science “Cheney and Seyfarth found that for a baboon to get on in life involves a complicated blend of short-term relationships, friendships, and careful status calculations. Reading a baboon’s mind affords an excellent grasp of the dynamics of baboon society. But more than
. (May)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. Along the way we get a good look at the state of current primate research on intelligence and learn why scientists think the human brain is still unique. Cheney and Seyfarth pepper their descriptions with surprisingly apt literary comparisons, such as the example of a baboon who runs afoul of a higher-ranking member and receives much the same treatment as an unwitting character in an Edith Wharton novel. 50 b&w photos, 1 line drawin
E. N. Anderson said What would the baboons say?. The intrepid team of Cheney and Seyfarth has done it again. Their work has a long-standing and deserved reputation for being both pioneering and sensible, a rather rare combination. This book traces implications for human evolution of their research on baboons in the Okavango Delta of Botswana. I have had my camps in the Delta raided by baboons who must be close relatives of Cheney and Seyfarth's friends. . konrad lorentz, move over j a haverstick Ok, that's a little hype. But the earlier chapters especially were practically as charming. Several thousand undergraduates will be assigned this book and for many of them it will be one of the most memorable things they read in college. Who's Simon and who's Garfunkle in this team of authors I don't know, but their style is very engaging. This is one aspect of the work, the pure ethology, and it's very go. Party Animals? Dr. Richard G. Petty Charles Darwin once wrote of his belief that if we would learn something very important if we could but understand the behavior of baboon.The authors of this enthralling book are widely known for their studies of primate behavior in the Okavango in Botswana, and set out to do just that: understand how behavior baboons live and organize their lives.Baboons live in groups of up to 150 individuals, which incl