Edited by Anne E. Russon and David R. Begun Cambridge University Press, 2004 FROM THE BACK COVER Research on the evolution of higher intelligence rarely combines data from fields as diverse as paleontology and psychology. In this volume we seek to do just that, synthesizing the approaches of hominoid cognition, psychology, language studies, ecology, evolution, paleoecology, and systematics towards an understanding of great ape intelligence. Leading scholars from all these fields have been asked to evaluate the manner in which each of their topics of research informs our understanding of the evolution of intelligence in great apes and humans. The ideas thus assembled represent the most comprehensive survey to date of the various causes and consequences of cognitive evolution in great apes. The Evolution of Thought will therefore be an essential reference for graduate students and researchers in evolutionary psychology, paleoanthropology, and primatology. ANNE E. RUSSON is a professor of psychology at Glendon College of York University in Toronto. Since 1989 she has been studying intelligence and learning in ex-captive orangutans released to free forest life in central and eastern Indonesian Borneo. DAVID R. BEGUN is a professor of anthropology at the University of Toronto. He is a leading researcher in Miocene hominoid paleobiology His current research interests center on the biogeography of great ape and human origins and the relations between Miocene hominoids and the earliest humans. TABLE OF CONTENTS List of contributors vii Preface ix 1. Evolutionary reconstructions of great ape intelligence 1 ANNE E. RUSSON 2. Enhanced cognitive capacity as a contingent fact of hominid phylogeny 15 DAVID R. BEGUN PART I. COGNITION IN LIVING GREAT APES Introduction 29 ANNE E. RUSSON 3. The manual skills and cognition that lie behind hominid tool use 31 RICHARD W. BYRNE 4. The cognitive complexity of social organization and socialization in wild baboons and chimpanzees: guided participation, socializing interactions, and event representation 45 SUE TAYLOR PARKER 5. Gestural communication in the great apes 61 JOANNA BLAKE 6. Great ape cognitive systems 76 ANNE E. RUSSON PART II. MODERN GREAT APE ADAPTATION Introduction 101 ANNE E. RUSSON 7. What's in a brain? The question of a distinctive brain anatomy in great apes 105 CAROL E. MacLEOD 8. Life histories and the evolution of large brain size in great apes 122 CAROLINE ROSS 9. Evolution of complex feeding techniques in primates: is this the origin of great ape intelligence? 140 GEN YAMAKOSHI 10. The special demands of great ape locomotion and posture 172 KEVIN D. HUNT 11. Great ape social systems 190 CAREL P. VAN SCHAIK, SIGNE PREUSCHOFT, AND DAVID P. WATTS 12. Diet and foraging of the great apes: ecological constraints on their social organizations and implications for their divergence 210 JUICHI YAMAGIWA PART III. FOSSIL GREAT APE ADAPTATIONS Introduction 235 DAVID R. BEGUN 13. Paleoenvironments and the evolution of adaptability in great apes 237 RICHARD POTTS 14. Cranial evidence of the evolution of intelligence in fossil apes 260 DAVID R. BEGUN AND LASZLO KORDOS 15. Life history and cognitive evolution in the apes 280 JAY KELLEY 16. Fossil hominoid diets, extractive foraging, and the origins of great ape intelligence 298 MICHELLE SINGLETON 17. Paleontology, terrestriality, and the intelligence of great apes 320 DANIEL L. GEBO 18. Body size and intelligence in hominoid evolution 335 CAROL V. WARD, MARK FLINN, AND DAVID R. BEGUN PART IV. INTEGRATION 19. Evolutionary origins of great ape intelligence: an integrated view 353 ANNE E. RUSSON AND DAVID R. BEGUN Author index 369 Species index 373 Subject index 375 ***************************************************** ISBN: 0521783356 (hardcover) $110.00 USD WHERE TO ORDER: Cambridge University Press 100 Brook Hill Drive West Nyack, NY 10994-2133 General phone: (845) 353-7500 General fax: (845) 353-4141 Direct link to catalog entry: http://us.cambridge.org/titles/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521783356 Posted Date: 5/26/04
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