Beyond the Brain: How Body and Environment Shape Animal and Human Minds - Paperback
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Princeton University PressISBN-13:9780691165561ISBN-10:691165564UPC:9780691165561Book Category:Psychology, Science, MedicalBook Subcategory:Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, Life Sciences, NeuroscienceBook Topic:EvolutionSize:9.20 x 6.10 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.9017Product ID:SC93T0H76T
Beyond the Brain: How Body and Environment Shape Animal and Human Minds
A new approach to understanding animal and human cognition
When a chimpanzee stockpiles rocks as weapons or when a frog sends out mating calls, we might easily assume these animals know their own motivations--that they use the same psychological mechanisms that we do. But as Beyond the Brain indicates, this is a dangerous assumption because animals have different evolutionary trajectories,...Language:EnglishPublisher:Princeton University PressISBN-13:9780691165561ISBN-10:691165564UPC:9780691165561Book Category:Psychology, Science, MedicalBook Subcategory:Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, Life Sciences, NeuroscienceBook Topic:EvolutionSize:9.20 x 6.10 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.9017Product ID:SC93T0H76T
Louise Barrett is Professor of Psychology and Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) in Cognition, Evolution, and Behavior at the University of Lethbridge. She is the author of Baboons and the coauthor of Cousins, Walking with Cavemen, Human Evolutionary Psychology, and Evolutionary Psychology.
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