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基本説明
著者ドゥ・ヴァールが提唱する「進化認知学」に基づいて、人間中心の科学から脱却して、動物の持つ認知の力を見直す試みが紹介されています。
ちょっと回りくどい書名ですが、『チンパンジーは食べ物のありかを知っていることを悟られないようにふるまう』、『アシナガバチは一匹ずつ顔が違い、仲間の顔を見分けている』など知識が満載です。
紀伊國屋書店出版部からまもなく邦訳が刊行されます。(2017/07/27)
Full Description
Hailed as a classic, Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? explores the oddities and complexities of animal cognition—in crows, dolphins, parrots, sheep, wasps, bats, chimpanzees, and bonobos—to reveal how smart animals really are, and how we've underestimated their abilities for too long. Did you know that octopuses use coconut shells as tools, that elephants classify humans by gender and language, and that there is a young male chimpanzee at Kyoto University whose flash memory puts that of humans to shame? Fascinating, entertaining, and deeply informed, de Waal's landmark work will convince you to rethink everything you thought you knew about animal—and human—intelligence.