'Language' and Intelligence in Monkeys and Apes: Comparative Developmental Perspectives »

The first ever collection of articles devoted to the study of primate abilities based on developmental psychology and evolutionary biology.

List of contributors; Foreword Howard E. Gruber; Preface; Acknowledgements;

1. Theoretical frameworks for comparative developmental studies Sue Taylor Parker, Bernard Baars and Kathleen Rita Gibson;
2. Comparative developmental perspectives on Cebus intelligence Francesco Antinucci, Dorothy Munkenbeck Fragaszy, Kathleen Rita Gibson, Sue Taylor Parker and Patricia Poti;
3. Questions regarding imitation, language and cultural transmission in apes and monkeys Elisabetta Visalberghi, Dorothy Munkenbeck Fragaszy, Michael Tomasello and Jacques Vauclair;
4. Developmental perspectives on social intelligence and communication in great apes Juan Carlos Gómez, Kim A. Bard, Anne E. Russon and Ben G. Blount;
5. Development of numerical and classificatory abilities in chimpanzees and other vertebrates Sarah T. Boysen, Gary G. Barntson, Tetsuro Matsuzawa and Irene Maxine Pepperberg;
6. Comparative developmental perspectives on ape 'language' H. Lyn White Miles, Patricia Marks Greenfield and E. Sue Savage-Rumbaugh; Index.