Baboon Metaphysics The Evolution of a Social Mind

Name: Baboon Metaphysics The Evolution of a Social Mind
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ISBN: 9780226102443

ISBN-10: 0226102440

ISBN-13: 9780226102443

Edition: 2008

Authors: Dorothy L. Cheney, Robert M. Seyfarth

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In 1838 Charles Darwin jotted in a notebook, "He who understands baboon would do more towards metaphysics than Locke."Baboon Metaphysicsis Dorothy L. Cheney and Robert M. Seyfarth's fascinating response to Darwin's challenge. Cheney and Seyfarth set up camp in Botswana's Okavango Delta, where they could intimately observe baboons and their social world. Baboons live in groups of up to 150, including a handful of males and eight or nine matrilineal families of females. Such numbers force baboons to form a complicated mix of short-term bonds for mating and longer-term friendships based on careful calculations of status and individual need. ButBaboon Metaphysicsis concerned with much more than…

Book details

List price: $18.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 9/15/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 358
Size: 0.63" wide x 0.89" long x 0.08" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English



Acknowledgments



The Evolution of Mind



The Primate Mind in Myth and Legend



Habitat, Infanticide, and Predation



Males: Competition, Infanticide, and Friendship



Females: Kinship, Rank, Competition, and Cooperation



Social Knowledge



The Social Intelligence Hypothesis



Theory of Mind



Self-Awareness and Consciousness



Communication



Precursors to Language



Baboon Metaphysics


Appendix


References


Index