Learning from Animals? : Examining the Nature of Human Uniqueness

In Learning from Animals? experts present empirical research, analyze issues raised by comparative approaches and debate their consequences for an understanding of human uniqueness.

Forward: Josep Call. Acknowledgements. L.S. Roska-Hardy, Introduction: Issues and Themes in Comparative Studies: Language, Cognition and Culture. W. Tecumseh Fitch, Prolegomena to a Science of Biolinguistics. W. Wildgen, Sketch of an Evolutionary Grammar Based on Comparative Biolinguistics. A. Meguerditchian and J. Vauclair, Vocal and Gestural Communication in Nonhuman Primates and the Question of the Origin of Language. K.A. Bard and D.A. Leavens, Socio-emotional Factors in the Development of Joint Attention in Human and Ape Infants. H. Rakoczy, Collective Intentionality and the Roots of Human Societal Life. J-M. Burkart, Socio-cognitive Abilities and Cooperative Breeding. Z. Viranyi, F. Range and L. Huber, Attentiveness toward Others and Social Learning in Domestic Dogs. I. Brinck, From Similarity to Uniqueness: Method and Theory in Comparative Psychology. C.A. Caldwell, Experimental Approaches to the Study of Culture in Primates. W.C. McGrew, How the Chimpanzee Stole Culture, or Lessons Learned from Labours in Cultural Primatology. D. Jamieson, Great Apes and the Human Resistance to Equality. M. Kettner, Apes and Human Dignity. Bibliography