Animal Social Complexity: Intelligence, Culture, and Individualized Societies

by F.B.M. De Waal, Jack W. Bradbury, Richard Connor

Book Overview

For over 25 years, primatologists have speculated that intelligence, at least in monkeys and apes, evolved as an adaptation to the complicated social milieu of hard-won friendships and bitterly contested rivalries. Yet the Balkanization of animal research has prevented us from studying the same problem in other large-brained, long-lived animals, such as hyenas and elephants, bats and sperm whales. Social complexity turns out to be widespread indeed...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674009290
• ISBN13: 9780674009295
• Release Date: March 2003
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 616 Pages
• Weight: 2.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.5" x 9.6"