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Title: Folk Physics for Apes: The Chimpanzee's Theory of How the World Works by Daniel J. Povinelli ISBN: 0-19-857219-0 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: July, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $39.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
Rating: 5
Summary: Groundbreaking, Definitive Research
Comment: The book is exceptionally well written, and the research behind it is powerful and compelling. I first came across Povinelli's work in a special Scientific American issue on intelligence, where he debated his former mentor, Gordon Gallup, on the nature and extent of chimpanzee self awareness. I was wowed by the strength and elegence of his reasoning then, and again in his previous book, "What Young Chimpanzees Know About Seeing", perhaps all the more so because his conclusions run so completely counter to what I had been conditioned to think about chimps from depictions in popular culture.
This book is even better and more full of revelations than his previous work. I couldn't put it down. On top of that, it is an outstanding example of the rigorous application of scientific method, and could provide many terrific examples for teachers trying to teach the scientific method to students.
"Folk Physics for Apes" is probably the best scientific book I've read, beating out tough competition from "The Selfish Gene" and "The Extended Phenotype" (R. Dawkins), "The Dinosaur Heresies" (R. Bakker), as well as other top notch books on the nature of mind, like "An Anthropologist on Mars" (O. Sacks) and "The Rediscovery of the Mind" (J. Searle).
Simply the best!
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Title: Original Intelligence: The Architecture of the Human Mind by David Premack, Ann J. Premack ISBN: 0071381422 Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Contemporary Books Pub. Date: 12 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Primate Cognition by Michael Tomasello, Josep Call ISBN: 0195106245 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: July, 1997 List Price(USD): $44.50 |
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Title: Intelligence of Apes and Other Rational Beings by Duane M. Rumbaugh, David A. Washburn ISBN: 0300099835 Publisher: Yale Univ Pr Pub. Date: 01 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: Words, Thoughts, and Theories (Learning, Development, and Conceptual Change) by Alison Gopnik, Andrew N. Meltzoff ISBN: 0262571269 Publisher: MIT Press Pub. Date: 31 July, 1998 List Price(USD): $21.00 |
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Title: Intentions and Intentionality : Foundations of Social Cognition by Bertram F. Malle, Louis J. Moses, Dare A. Baldwin ISBN: 0262632675 Publisher: MIT Press Pub. Date: 01 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $27.00 |
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