Intelligence In Apes

Introduction

Good places to start

Parker, S.T., and McKinney, M.L. (1999). Origins of Intelligence: The Evolution of Cognitive Development in Monkeys, Apes and Humans. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.

Books

Must-read books - original sources, commentaries and collections

Antinucci, F. (ed.) (1989). Cognitive Structure and Development in Non-Human Primates. London: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Boysen, S.T., and Capaldi, E.J. (eds) (1993). The Development of Numerical Competence. Animal and Human Models. Hillsdale, N.J: Erlbaum.

Byrne, R. (1995). The Thinking Ape: Evolutionary Origins of Intelligence. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Chevalier-Skolnikoff, S., and Poirier, F. (eds) (1977). Primate Biosocial Development. New York: Garland.

Corballis, M.C. (1991). The Lopsided Ape. Evolution of the Generative Mind. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Crook, J.H. (1980). The Evolution of Human Consciousness. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Else, J. and Lee, P. (1986). Primate Ontogeny, Cognition and Social Behaviour. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Gardner, R.A., Gardner, B.T., and Van Cantfort, T.E. (eds) (1989). Teaching Sign Language to Chimpanzees. Albany, N.Y.: SUNY Press.

Gibson, K.R. and Ingold, T. (1993). Tools, Language and Cognition in Human Evolution. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Griffin, D.R. (1981). The Question of Animal Awareness: Evolutionary Continuity of Mental Experience (revised and enlarged edition). Los Altos: William Kaufmann, Inc.

Griffin, D.R. (1984). Animal Thinking. London: Harvard University Press.

Köhler, W. (1957). The Mentality of Apes. Harmondsworth: Penguin.

McGrew, W.C. (1992). Chimpanzee Material Culture: Implications for Human Evolution. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Mitchell, R., and Thompson, N. (eds) (1986). Deception: Perspectives on Human and Non-Human Deceit. Albany, N.Y.: SUNY Press.

Parker, S.T. and Gibson, K.R. (1990). Language and Intelligence in Monkeys and Apes. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Parker, S.T.,and McKinney, M.L. (1999). Origins of Intelligence: The Evolution of Cognitive Development in Monkeys, Apes and Humans. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.

Parker, S.T., Mitchell, R.W. and Boccia, M.L. (1994). Self-Awareness in Animals and Humans: Developmental Perspectives. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Premack, D. (1976). Intelligence in Apes and Man. Hillsdale, N.J: Erlbaum.

Quiatt, D. and Itani, J. (eds) (1994). Hominid Culture in Primate Perspective. Niwot, Colorado: University of Colorado Press.

Richardson, K. (1999). The Making of Intelligence. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson.

Russon, A.E., Bard, K.A. and Parker, S.T. (1996). Reaching into Thought: The Minds of the Great Apes. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Savage-Rumbaugh, E.S., Murphy, J., Sevcik, R., Brakke, K.E., Williams, S.L., and Rumbaugh, D.M. (1993). Language Comprehension in Ape and Child. (Vol.58). Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Tomasello, M. and Call, J. (1997). Primate Cognition. New York: Oxford University Press.

Whiten, A. (ed.) (1991). Natural Theories of Mind: Evolution, Development and Simulation of Everyday Mindreading. Cambridge, MA: Basil Blackwell.

Whiten, A., and Byrne, R. (eds) (1988). Machiavellian Intelligence. London: Oxford University Press.

Waal, F. de (1983). Chimpanzee Politics. New York: Harper and Row.

Waal, F. de (1996). Good Natured: The Origins of Right and Wrong in Humans and Other Animals. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Vauclair, J. (1996). Animal Cognition: An Introduction to Modern Comparative Psychology. London: Harvard University Press.

Papers

Key papers & discussions

Brewer, S.M. and McGrew, W.C. (1990). Chimpanzee use of a tool-set to get honey. Folia Primatologica, 54: 100–104.3

Gallup, G.G., Jr (1982). Self-awareness and the emergence of mind in primates. American Journal of Primatology, 2:237–248.

Journals

Journals that regularly carry valuable papers on this topic

Brain and Behavioral Sciences

Evolutionary Anthropology

Folia Primatologica

Human Evolution

International Journal of Primatology

Journal of Comparative Psychology

Journal of Human Evolution

Primates

Websites

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