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Primate Behaviour: Information, Social Knowledge, and the Evolution of Culture »

Book cover image of Primate Behaviour: Information, Social Knowledge, and the Evolution of Culture by Duane D. Quiatt

Authors: Duane D. Quiatt, Vernon Reynolds
ISBN-13: 9780521498326, ISBN-10: 0521498325
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: January 1995
Edition: (Non-applicable)

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Author Biography: Duane D. Quiatt

Book Synopsis

This book is about the social life of monkeys, apes and humans.

Table of Contents

1Introduction1
2The contexts of behaviour16
3Emphasizing individual benefits: blind strategies56
4Emphasizing individual benefits: tactical decisions79
5Cognition117
6Social cognition139
7Intentionalist interpretations of behaviour165
8Knowledge in the social domain184
9Kinship and marriage212
10The constraints of culture242
11Language and its social implications262
References290
Index318

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