Learning from Animals Examining the Nature of Human Uniqueness 1st Edition by Louise Röska Hardy, Eva Neumann Held ISBN 1135430233 9781135430238

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ISBN 10: 1135430233

ISBN 13: 9781135430238

Author:  Louise S. Röska-Hardy, Eva M. Neumann-Held 

Learning from Animals?: Examining the Nature of Human Uniqueness 1st Edition: 

Human language, cognition, and culture are unique; they are unparalleled in the animal kingdom. The claim that we can learn what makes us human by studying other animal species provokes vigorous reactions and many deny that comparative research can shed any light on the origins and character of human distinctive capacities. However, Learning from Animals? presents empirical research and an analysis of comparative approaches for an understanding of human uniqueness, arguing that we cannot know what capacities are uniquely human until we learn what other species can do.

This interdisciplinary volume explores the prospects and problems of comparative approaches for understanding modern humans’ abilities by presenting: (1) the latest findings and theoretical approaches in primatology, comparative psychology, linguistics, and philosophy; (2) methodological reflections on the prospects and challenges of understanding human capacities through comparative research strategies; and (3) discussions of conceptual and ethical issues.

This is the first book to address the issues raised by comparative research from such a diverse perspective. It will therefore be of great interest to students, researchers, and professionals in comparative psychology, linguistics, primatology, biology, and philosophy.

 

Learning from Animals?: Examining the Nature of Human Uniqueness 1st Edition Table of contents:

Part I Language

• Prolegomena to a science of biolinguistics
• Sketch of an evolutionary grammar based on comparative biolinguistics
• Vocal and gestural communication in nonhuman primates and the question of the origin of language

Part II Cognition

• Socioemotional factors in the development of joint attention in human and ape infants
• Collective intentionality and the roots of human societal life
• Socio-cognitive abilities and cooperative breeding
• Attentiveness toward others and social learning in domestic dogs
• From similarity to uniqueness: Method and theory in comparative psychology

Part III Culture

• Experimental approaches to the study of culture in primates
• How the chimpanzee stole culture, or lessons learned from labours in cultural primatology
• Great apes and the human resistance to equality
• Apes and human dignity
• Postscript: Human uniqueness in a comparative perspective

 

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