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Primate tourism is a growing phenomenon, with increasing pressure
coming from several directions: the private sector, governments,
and conservation agencies. At the same time, some primate sites are
working to exclude or severely restrict tourism because of problems
that have developed as a result. Indeed, tourism has proven costly
to primates due to factors such as disease, stress, social
disruption, vulnerability to poachers, and interference with
rehabilitation and reintroduction. Bringing together
interdisciplinary expertise in wildlife/nature tourism and
primatology, experts present and discuss their accumulated
experience from individual primate sites open to tourists, formal
studies of primate-focused tourism, and trends in nature and
wildlife tourism. Chapters offer species- and site-specific
assessments, weighing conservation benefits against costs, and
suggesting strategies for the development of informed guidelines
for ongoing and future primate tourism ventures. Primate Tourism
has been written for primatologists, conservationists and other
scientists. It is also relevant to tourists and tourism
professionals.
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 toward 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 inform our understanding of the evolution of intelligence
in great apes and humans. The ideas thus assembled represent a
comprehensive survey 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.
In this book, field and laboratory researchers show that the Great Apes are capable of thinking at symbolic levels, traditionally considered uniquely human. They show these high-level abilities in both social and ecological domains, including tool use, imitation, pretense, self-awareness, deception, consolation, teaching and proto-culture itself. Here, contributors emphasize the mechanisms involved in building these abilities--especially the lengthy developmental and "enculturation" processes--suggesting changes to current views on how primate and human intelligence have evolved. Researchers and professionals in the fields of primatology, animal behavior, anthropology, linguistics, and cognitive psychology will find much useful information in this book.
What special qualities of mind set the great apes apart from other
nonhuman primates, and indeed from ourselves? In this book, field
and laboratory researchers show that the great apes have high level
abilities in both social and ecological domains, including tool
use, pretense, self-awareness, deception, consolation, teaching and
culture itself. Great apes are also shown to be capable of thinking
at symbolic levels, traditionally considered to be uniquely human.
Here, the mechanisms involved in building these abilities -
especially the lengthy developmental and 'enculturation' processes
- are emphasized, showing how new discoveries are changing views on
how primates and human intelligence evolved. This book is for
anyone interested in current research and theoretical views of
great ape cognition.
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