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The hunt for the dawn monkey [[electronic resource] ] : unearthing the origins of monkeys, apes, and humans / / Chris Beard ; illustrations by Mark Klingler
The hunt for the dawn monkey [[electronic resource] ] : unearthing the origins of monkeys, apes, and humans / / Chris Beard ; illustrations by Mark Klingler
Autore Beard K. Christopher
Pubbl/distr/stampa Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2004
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (366 p.)
Disciplina 569/.8
Soggetto topico Primates, Fossil
Monkeys, Fossil
Fossil hominids
Human beings - Origin
Paleoanthropology
Soggetto genere / forma Electronic books.
ISBN 1-282-35872-3
9786612358722
1-4175-8494-7
0-520-94025-3
1-59734-939-9
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- 1. Missing Links and Dawn Monkeys -- 2. Toward Egypt's Sacred Bull -- 3. A Gem from the Willwood -- 4. The Forest in the Sahara -- 5. Received Wisdom -- 6. The Birth of a Ghost Lineage -- 7. Initial Hints from Deep Time -- 8. Ghost Busters -- 9. Resurrecting the Ghost -- 10. Into the African Melting Pot -- 11. Paleoanthropology and Pithecophobia -- Notes -- References Cited -- Index
Record Nr. UNINA-9910450358303321
Beard K. Christopher  
Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2004
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The hunt for the dawn monkey [[electronic resource] ] : unearthing the origins of monkeys, apes, and humans / / Chris Beard ; illustrations by Mark Klingler
The hunt for the dawn monkey [[electronic resource] ] : unearthing the origins of monkeys, apes, and humans / / Chris Beard ; illustrations by Mark Klingler
Autore Beard K. Christopher
Pubbl/distr/stampa Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2004
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (366 p.)
Disciplina 569/.8
Soggetto topico Primates, Fossil
Monkeys, Fossil
Fossil hominids
Human beings - Origin
Paleoanthropology
ISBN 1-282-35872-3
9786612358722
1-4175-8494-7
0-520-94025-3
1-59734-939-9
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- 1. Missing Links and Dawn Monkeys -- 2. Toward Egypt's Sacred Bull -- 3. A Gem from the Willwood -- 4. The Forest in the Sahara -- 5. Received Wisdom -- 6. The Birth of a Ghost Lineage -- 7. Initial Hints from Deep Time -- 8. Ghost Busters -- 9. Resurrecting the Ghost -- 10. Into the African Melting Pot -- 11. Paleoanthropology and Pithecophobia -- Notes -- References Cited -- Index
Record Nr. UNINA-9910783316903321
Beard K. Christopher  
Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2004
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The hunt for the dawn monkey : unearthing the origins of monkeys, apes, and humans / / Chris Beard ; illustrations by Mark Klingler
The hunt for the dawn monkey : unearthing the origins of monkeys, apes, and humans / / Chris Beard ; illustrations by Mark Klingler
Autore Beard K. Christopher
Edizione [1st ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2004
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (366 p.)
Disciplina 569/.8
Soggetto topico Primates, Fossil
Monkeys, Fossil
Fossil hominids
Human beings - Origin
Paleoanthropology
ISBN 9786612358722
9781282358720
1282358723
9781417584949
1417584947
9780520940253
0520940253
9781597349390
1597349399
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- 1. Missing Links and Dawn Monkeys -- 2. Toward Egypt's Sacred Bull -- 3. A Gem from the Willwood -- 4. The Forest in the Sahara -- 5. Received Wisdom -- 6. The Birth of a Ghost Lineage -- 7. Initial Hints from Deep Time -- 8. Ghost Busters -- 9. Resurrecting the Ghost -- 10. Into the African Melting Pot -- 11. Paleoanthropology and Pithecophobia -- Notes -- References Cited -- Index
Record Nr. UNINA-9910974775903321
Beard K. Christopher  
Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2004
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Tool use in animals : cognition and ecology / / edited by Crickette M. Sanz, Washington University, St Louis, USA, Josep Call, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany, Christophe Boesch, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany [[electronic resource]]
Tool use in animals : cognition and ecology / / edited by Crickette M. Sanz, Washington University, St Louis, USA, Josep Call, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany, Christophe Boesch, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany [[electronic resource]]
Pubbl/distr/stampa Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (x, 313 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
Disciplina 569/.8
Soggetto topico Tool use in animals
Primates - Behavior
ISBN 1-107-23472-7
1-107-32671-0
1-107-65743-1
1-107-33243-5
0-511-89480-5
1-107-33647-3
1-107-33481-0
1-107-33315-6
1-299-25745-3
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Part I. Cognition of tool use. 1. Three ingredients for becoming a creative tool-user / Josep Call ; 2. Ecology and cognition of tool use in chimpanzees / Christophe Boesch ; 3. Chimpanzees plan their tool use / Richard W. Byrne, Crickette M. Sanz and David B. Morgan -- Part II. Comparative cognition. 4. Insight, imagination and invention : tool understanding in a non-tool-using corvid / Nathan J. Emery ; 5. Why is tool use rare in animals? / Gavin R. Hunt, Russell D. Gray and Alex H. Taylor ; 6. Understanding differences in the way human and non-human primates represent tools : the role of teleological-intentional information / April M. Ruiz and Laurie R. Santos ; 7. Why do woodpecker finches use tools? / Sabine Tebbich and Irmgard Teschke -- Part III. Ecology and culture. 8. The social context of chimpanzee tool use / Crickette M. Sanz and David B. Morgan ; 9. Orangutan tool use and the evolution of technology / Ellen J.M. Meulman and Carel P. van Schaik ; 10. The Etho-Cebus Project : stone-tool use by wild capuchin monkeys / Elisabetta Visalberghi and Dorothy Fragaszy -- Part IV. Archaeological perspectives. 11. From pounding to knapping : how chimpanzees can help us model hominin lithics / Susana Carvalho, Tetsuro Matsuzawa and William C. McGrew ; 12. Early hominin social learning strategies underlying the use and production of bone and stone tools / Matthew V. Caruana, Francesco d'Errico and Lucinda Backwell ; 13. Perspectives on stone tools and cognition in the early Paleolithic record / Shannon P. McPherron.
Record Nr. UNINA-9910465654703321
Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013
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Tool use in animals : cognition and ecology / / edited by Crickette M. Sanz, Washington University, St Louis, USA, Josep Call, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany, Christophe Boesch, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany [[electronic resource]]
Tool use in animals : cognition and ecology / / edited by Crickette M. Sanz, Washington University, St Louis, USA, Josep Call, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany, Christophe Boesch, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany [[electronic resource]]
Pubbl/distr/stampa Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (x, 313 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
Disciplina 569/.8
Soggetto topico Tool use in animals
Primates - Behavior
ISBN 1-107-23472-7
1-107-32671-0
1-107-65743-1
1-107-33243-5
0-511-89480-5
1-107-33647-3
1-107-33481-0
1-107-33315-6
1-299-25745-3
Classificazione SCI070050
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Part I. Cognition of tool use. 1. Three ingredients for becoming a creative tool-user / Josep Call ; 2. Ecology and cognition of tool use in chimpanzees / Christophe Boesch ; 3. Chimpanzees plan their tool use / Richard W. Byrne, Crickette M. Sanz and David B. Morgan -- Part II. Comparative cognition. 4. Insight, imagination and invention : tool understanding in a non-tool-using corvid / Nathan J. Emery ; 5. Why is tool use rare in animals? / Gavin R. Hunt, Russell D. Gray and Alex H. Taylor ; 6. Understanding differences in the way human and non-human primates represent tools : the role of teleological-intentional information / April M. Ruiz and Laurie R. Santos ; 7. Why do woodpecker finches use tools? / Sabine Tebbich and Irmgard Teschke -- Part III. Ecology and culture. 8. The social context of chimpanzee tool use / Crickette M. Sanz and David B. Morgan ; 9. Orangutan tool use and the evolution of technology / Ellen J.M. Meulman and Carel P. van Schaik ; 10. The Etho-Cebus Project : stone-tool use by wild capuchin monkeys / Elisabetta Visalberghi and Dorothy Fragaszy -- Part IV. Archaeological perspectives. 11. From pounding to knapping : how chimpanzees can help us model hominin lithics / Susana Carvalho, Tetsuro Matsuzawa and William C. McGrew ; 12. Early hominin social learning strategies underlying the use and production of bone and stone tools / Matthew V. Caruana, Francesco d'Errico and Lucinda Backwell ; 13. Perspectives on stone tools and cognition in the early Paleolithic record / Shannon P. McPherron.
Record Nr. UNINA-9910792071703321
Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013
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