Description: In this fascinating introduction to primate minds, Gómez identifies evolutionary resemblances--and differences--between human children and other primates. He argues that primate minds are best understood not as fixed collections of specialized cognitive capacities, but instead as a range of abilities that can surpass their original adaptations.
Brief description: Juan Carlos Gómez is a Reader in the School of Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of St Andrews, Scotland.
Review Quotes: Amazing progress has been made in the past few years in the study of primate cognition. Juan Carlos Gómez documents this progress in a masterful and beautifully written book that will delight expert and novice alike.--Michael Tomasello, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, author of Constructing a Language: A Usage-Based Theory of Language Acquisition