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Title
Evolving insight / Richard W. Byrne.
Author
Byrne, Richard W., author.
Edition
First edition.
ISBN
9780191820281 (electronic book)
Published
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource
Call Number
BF449.5
Dewey Decimal Classification
153.4
Summary
30 years after the publication of his seminal book, 'The Thinking Ape', Richard Byrne develops a new theory of the evolutionary origins of human abilities to understand the world of objects and other people. Defining mental representation and computation as 'insight', he reviews the evidence for this skill in the cognition of animals.
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30 years after the publication of his seminal book, 'The Thinking Ape', Richard Byrne develops a new theory of the evolutionary origins of human abilities to understand the world of objects and other people. Defining mental representation and computation as 'insight', he reviews the evidence for this skill in the cognition of animals.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on January 27, 2016).
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Print version: 9780198757078
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