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Frans de Waal

Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?

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What separates your mind from an animal's? Maybe you think it's your ability to design tools, your sense of self, or your grasp of past and future-all traits that have helped us define ourselves as the planet's preeminent species. But in recent decades, these claims have eroded, or even been disproven outright, by a revolution in the study of animal cognition. Take the way octopuses use coconut shells as tools; elephants that classify humans by age, gender, and language; or Ayumu, the young male chimpanzee at Kyoto University whose flash memory puts that of humans to shame. Based on research involving crows, dolphins, parrots, sheep, wasps, b… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-393-24618-6
  • EAN: 9780393246186
  • Produktnummer: 19501573
  • Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
  • Seitenangabe: 340 S.
  • Masse: H24.4 cm x B16.7 cm x D2.5 cm 539 g
  • Abbildungen: 32 illlustrations
  • Gewicht: 539

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Frans de Waal, author of Mama's Last Hug and Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?, is a professor of psychology at Emory University and director of the Living Links Center at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center. He lives in Atlanta, Georgia.

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