Overview
- An interdisciplinary approach to discuss and study non-human primate and human social cognition
- Covers numerous methods for studying social cognition
- Investigates mechanisms of cultural transmission
Part of the book series: Interdisciplinary Evolution Research (IDER, volume 5)
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Table of contents (19 chapters)
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Aspects of Primate Social Cognition
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Studying Primate Social Cognition: Theory, Observation, Experiments, and Modelling
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Cultural Artefacts and Transmission in Primates
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About this book
The first part focusses on various aspects of social cognition across primates, from the relationship between food and social behaviour to the connection with empathy and communication, offering a multitude of innovative approaches that range from field-studies to philosophy.
The second part details the various epistemic and methodological means there exist to study social cognition, in particular how to ascertain the proximal and ultimate mechanisms of social cognition through experimental, modelling and field studies.
In the final part, the mechanisms of cultural transmission in primate and human societies are investigated, and special attention is given to how the evolution of cognitive capacities underlie primates’ abilities to use and manufacture tools, and how this in turn influences their social ecology.
A must-read for both, young scholars as well as established researchers!
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Laura Desirèe Di Paolo, is a postdoctoral fellow at the Lichtenberg-Kolleg in the Institute for Advanced Study at the Georg-August University of Göttingen and member of the Primate Cognition Research Group at the Leibniz Science Campus in Göttingen. She is a philosopher of cognitive and life sciences, with a particular interest in primatology, and in comparative and developmental psychology. Her work focuses on social cognition and social learning strategies in human and nonhuman primates, and on their impact on the evolution of human-like cultural cognition.
Fabio Di Vincenzo is a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Environmental Biology of the Sapienza University in Rome. He is councillor of the Italian Institute of Human Paleontology (IsIPU) and the Italian Institute of Anthropology (IsITA). His scientific interests focus on the evolution human populations during the Middle Pleistocene in Europe.Francesca De Petrillo is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Psychology at the University of Michigan. Her research examines the evolutionary origins of human cognition by employing a multidisciplinary approach integrating both comparative and developmental research. In doing so, she aims to elucidate which aspects of cognition are unique to humans, and how species’ differences in life history, ecology, and social structure account for differences in their cognitive skills. She received a PhD in Environmental and Evolutionary Biology from Sapienza University of Rome and conducted postdoctoral research at Harvard University and the University of Michigan.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Evolution of Primate Social Cognition
Editors: Laura Desirèe Di Paolo, Fabio Di Vincenzo, Francesca De Petrillo
Series Title: Interdisciplinary Evolution Research
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93776-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-93775-5Published: 28 September 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-06721-2Published: 13 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-93776-2Published: 14 September 2018
Series ISSN: 2199-3068
Series E-ISSN: 2199-3076
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 326
Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations, 14 illustrations in colour
Topics: Evolutionary Biology, Mathematical Models of Cognitive Processes and Neural Networks, Archaeology, Philosophy of Biology