Origins of Intelligence: The Evolution of Cognitive Development in Monkeys, Apes, and Humans

by Sue Taylor Parker and Michael L. McKinney

Book Overview

Selected by Choice Magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title Since Darwin's time, comparative psychologists have searched for a good way to compare cognition in humans and nonhuman primates. In Origins of Intelligence, Sue Parker and Michael McKinney offer such a framework and make a strong case for using human development theory (both Piagetian and neo-Piagetian) to study the evolution of intelligence across primate species. Their approach is comprehensive,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801860121
• ISBN13: 9780801860126
• Release Date: May 1999
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 420 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.3" x 9.3"