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Comparative Vertebrate Cognition: Are Primates Superior to Non-Primates?

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Comparative Vertebrate Cognition: Are Primates Superior to Non-Primates? - Rogers, Lesley J. (Editor), and Kaplan, Gisela (Editor)
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This book explores afresh the long-standing interest, and emphasis on, the `special' capacities of primates. Some of the recent discoveries of the higher cognitive abilities of other mammals and also birds challenge the concept that primates are special and even the view that the cognitive ability of apes is more advanced than that of nonprimate mammals and birds. It is therefore timely to ask whether primates are, in fact, special and to do so from a broad range of perspectives. Divided into five sections this book deals ...

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Comparative Vertebrate Cognition: Are Primates Superior to Non-Primates? 2012, Springer-Verlag New York Inc., New York, NY

ISBN-13: 9781461347170

Paperback

Comparative Vertebrate Cognition: Are Primates Superior to Non-Primates? 2003, Springer, New York, NY

ISBN-13: 9780306477270

2004 edition

Hardcover