Frans de Waal is a Dutch/American biologist who has been named among Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People. The author of The Bonobo and the Atheist and Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? among many other works, he is the C. H. Candler Professor at Emory University and director of the Living Links Center at the Yerkes Primate Center. He lives in Atlanta, Georgia.
What separates your mind from an animal's? Maybe you think it's your ability to design tools, your sense of self, or your grasp of past and future – all traits that have helped us define ourselves as the planet's preeminent species. But in recent decades, these claims have been eroded, or even disproven, by a revolution in the study of animal cognition: take the octopuses that use coconut shells as tools; the elephants that classify humans by age, gender, and language; or Ayumu, the young male chimpanzee at Kyoto University whose flash memory puts that of humans to shame. Based on research involving crows, dolphins, parrots, sheep, wasps, bats, whales, and of course chimpanzees and bonobos, Frans de Waal demonstrates that we have grossly underestimated both the scope and the depth of animal intelligence. He offers a firsthand account of how science has stood traditional behaviorism on its head by revealing how smart animals really are.
發表於2024-05-17
Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載
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評分This book has been such a great entertainment for the past several days. That is exactly why I am willing to invest some time in writing this very brief review. For three reasons this book stands among the best pop-science books I have ever read. First of a...
評分英國作傢道格拉斯·亞當斯寫過一本科幻小說叫《銀河係漫遊指南》。小說一開頭,人們在報紙上讀到一條消息,地球上的海豚都消失不見瞭。主人公的外星人朋友告訴瞭他真相,地球要被毀滅瞭,因為要在地球所在的地方修建一條超空間快速通道。 換句話說,銀河係要修建高速公路,而地...
圖書標籤: 科普 生物學 心理學 生物 動物學 Non-fiction 英文 美國
This is an excellent book that discusses how we should assess the intelligence of animals. Good writing.
評分This is an excellent book that discusses how we should assess the intelligence of animals. Good writing.
評分COGS011 Supplement 6 | 作為給nonprofessional audience的書這本還是寫的很好的 但很淺 沒觸及numerical cognition / theory of mind / adaptive specialization or memory 倒是比較放鬆的讀物
評分大開眼界的一本書
評分期待關於大貓的故事。封麵很有誤導性。不過內容還是很不錯的
Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載