[PDF] Apes And Monkeys eBook

Author : Sue Taylor Parker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 622 pages
File Size : 29,96 MB
Release : 1994-01-28
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780521459693

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This is the first collection of articles completely and explicitly devoted to the new field of 'comparative developmental evolutionary psychology' - that is, to studies of primate abilities based on frameworks drawn from developmental psychology and evolutionary biology. These frameworks include Piagetian and neo-Piagetian models as well as psycholinguistic ones. The articles in this collection - originating in Japan, Spain, Italy, France, Canada and the United States - represent a variety of backgrounds in human and nonhuman primate research, including psycholinguistics, developmental psychology, cultural and physical anthropology, ethology, and comparative psychology. The book focuses on such areas as the nature of culture, intelligence, language, and imitation; the differences among species in mental abilities and developmental patterns; and the evolution of life histories and of mental abilities and their neurological bases. The species studied include the African grey parrot, cebus and macaque monkeys, gorillas, orangutans, and both common and pygmy chimpanzees.

Author : James Prunier
Publisher : Cartwheel Books
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 48,19 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780590876100

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An introduction to the physical characteristics, habits, and natural environment of a variety of apes and monkeys.

Author : Juan Carlos Gómez
Publisher :
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 31,12 MB
Release : 2004-06-30
Category : Psychology
ISBN :

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In this fascinating introduction to primate minds, Gómez identifies evolutionary resemblances—and differences—between human children and other primates. He argues that primate minds are best understood not as fixed collections of specialized cognitive capacities, but instead as a range of abilities that can surpass their original adaptations.

Author : Frans B. M. DE WAAL
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 19,55 MB
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0674033086

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Examines how simians cope with aggression, and how they make peace after fights.

Author : Tom Jackson
Publisher : Amber Books
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 12,34 MB
Release : 2021-11-02
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ISBN : 9781838861001

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With full captions explaining how each species act in a group, communicate, hunt and feed, and rear its young, Monkeys is a brilliant examination in 150 outstanding color photographs of these remarkable primates. As our closest relatives in the animal world, monkeys have always fascinated and amused humans in equal measure. Monkeys is an outstanding collection of photographs showing these complex, intelligent animals in their natural habitat. Arranged in chapters covering anatomy, family, behavior, feeding, and young, Monkeys features a wide variety of monkeys and apes, including baboons, gorillas, Orang Utans, macaques, howler monkeys, spider monkeys, marmosets, gibbons, mandrills, and chimpanzees. The smallest monkey is the pygmy marmoset, which can be just 4.6 inches in length with a 6.8-inch tail and weighing just over 3.5 oz., while the massive Grauer's gorilla can weigh over 400 lbs.

Author : Camilla De La Bédoyère
Publisher : Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 20,82 MB
Release : 2015-07-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1482432099

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We should learn as much as we can about our closest relatives in the animal world: apes, monkeys, and other primates. Throughout this comprehensive book, readers will discover the differences and similarities among different species of primates through 100 facts grouped by topic and their accompanying fun-fact boxes, diagrams, activities, and quizzes. Beautiful photographs of these amazing animals in their native habitats, including big-eyed tarsiers clinging to trees and teeth-baring baboons displaying their aggression, aid readers in visualizing the many important zoological details.

Author : Camilla De La Bédoyère
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 14,40 MB
Release : 2014-07-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1477791930

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Aligned with the Common Core’s standards of promoting the independent reading and comprehension of informative texts, this book uses a question/answer format for maximum simplicity and appeal. The differences between monkeys and apes, unique traits and behaviors of a variety of species, and mini-activities have been carefully combined to create a winning—and educational—mix that will delight young readers.

Author : Juan Carlos Gómez
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 14,23 MB
Release : 2009-07
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780674037793

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What can the study of young monkeys and apes tell us about the minds of young humans? In this fascinating introduction to the study of primate minds, Juan Carlos Gomez identifies evolutionary resemblances--and differences--between human children and other primates. He argues that primate minds are best understood not as fixed collections of specialized cognitive capacities, but more dynamically, as a range of abilities that can surpass their original adaptations. In a lively overview of a distinguished body of cognitive developmental research among nonhuman primates, Gomez looks at knowledge of the physical world, causal reasoning (including the chimpanzee-like errors that human children make), and the contentious subjects of ape language, theory of mind, and imitation. Attempts to teach language to chimpanzees, as well as studies of the quality of some primate vocal communication in the wild, make a powerful case that primates have a natural capacity for relatively sophisticated communication, and considerable power to learn when humans teach them. Gomez concludes that for all cognitive psychology's interest in perception, information-processing, and reasoning, some essential functions of mental life are based on ideas that cannot be explicitly articulated. Nonhuman and human primates alike rely on implicit knowledge. Studying nonhuman primates helps us to understand this perplexing aspect of all primate minds.

Author : John Green
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 53 pages
File Size : 43,82 MB
Release : 2013-08-21
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0486257983

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Forty-two anatomically correct renderings of primates — chimpanzee, gibbon, orangutan, gorilla, Barbary ape, bushbaby, many more. Descriptive captions, coloring information for each royalty-free illustration.