Learning from animals? : examining the nature of human uniqueness /: examining the nature of human uniqueness. (2008)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Louise S. Roska-Hardy and Eva M. Neumann-Held.
• Other Names: Röska-Hardy, Louise, 1950-; Neumann-Held, Eva M
• Contents: Introduction: Issues and themes in comparative studies : language, cognition, and culture / Louise S. Roska-Hardy -- Language -- Prolegomena to a science of biolinguistics / W. Tecumseh Fitch -- Sketch of an evolutionary grammar based on comparative biolinguistics / Wolfgang Wildgen -- Vocal and gestural communication in non-human primates and the question of the origin of language / Adrien Meguerditchian and Jacques Vauclair -- Cognition -- Socio-emotional factors in the development of joint attention in human and ape infants / Kim A. Bard and David A. Leavens -- Collective intentionality and the roots of human societal life / Hannes Rakoczy -- Socio-cognitive abilities and cooperative breeding / Judith-Maria Burkart -- Attentiveness toward others and social learning in domestic dogs / Zsófia Virányi, Friederike Range, and Ludwig Huber -- From similarity to uniqueness : method and theory in comparative psychology / Ingar Brinck -- Culture -- Experimental approaches to the study of culture in primates / Christine A. Caldwell -- How the chimpanzee stole culture, or lessons learned from labours in cultural primatology / William C. McGrew -- Great apes and the human resistance to equality / Dale Jamieson -- Apes and human dignity / Matthias Kettner -- Postscript: Human uniqueness in a comparative perspective / Louise S. Roska-Hardy.
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Psychology Press
• Publication Date: 2008
• Extent: 1 online resource (280 pages), (10 illustrations)
• Subjects: 156; Psychology, Comparative -- Research; Animal psychology -- Research
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781135430238; 1135430233
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
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