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Are we smart enough to know how smart animals are?
- Title
- Are we smart enough to know how smart animals are? / Frans de Waal ; with drawings by the author.
- Author
- Waal, F. B. M. de (Frans B. M.), 1948-
- Publication
- New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2016]
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- Description
- 340 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
- Summary
- 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.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-318) and index.
- Contents
- 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.
- ISBN
- 9780393246186
- 0393246183
- 9781783783045
- 1783783044
- LCCN
- 2015049994
- 99971789943
- OCLC
- ocn921868861
- 921868861
- SCSB-5886674
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries