Since the BBS article in which Premack and Woodruff (1978) asked “Does the chimpanzee
have a theory of mind?,” it has been repeatedly claimed that there is observational and …

The strong predominance of right-handedness appears to be a uniquely human
characteristic, whereas the left-cerebral dominance for vocalization occurs in many species …

A New York Times bestseller:" A passionate and convincing case for the sophistication of
nonhuman minds."—Alison Gopnik, The Atlantic Hailed as a classic, Are We Smart Enough …

Humans have many cognitive skills not possessed by their nearest primate relatives. The
cultural intelligence hypothesis argues that this is mainly due to a species-specific set of …

When published in 1980, Benjamin B. Beck's Animal Tool Behavior was the first volume to
catalog and analyze the complete literature on tool use and manufacture in non-human …

After decades of effort by some of our brightest human and non-human minds, there is still
little consensus on whether or not non-human animals understand anything about the …

Abstract Theory of mind (ToM; aka, mind‐reading, mentalizing, mental‐state attribution, and
perspective‐taking) is the ability to ascribe mental states, such as desires and beliefs, to …

Animal Learning and Cognition: An Introduction provides an up-to-date review of the
principal findings from more than a century of research into animal intelligence. This new …

The philosophy of animal minds addresses profound questions about the nature of mind and
the relationships between humans and other animals. In this fully revised and updated …

Determining the intentionality of primate communication is critical to understanding the
evolution of human language. Although intentional signalling has been claimed for some …