Pointing: Culture, Development, and Evolution - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1009445731 ISBN 13: 9781009445733

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2026

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A multi-disciplinary compendium exploring how pointing is used among human cultures and nonhuman species throughout the world.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Mark A. Krause is a professor of psychology at Southern Oregon University. He is co-editor of Evolution of Learning and Memory Mechanisms (Cambridge, 2022) and serves on the editorial boards for Journal of Comparative Psychology and Animal Behavior and Cognition. Mark has published research on chimpanzees, snakes, birds, and humans and began his career studying pointing in chimpanzees.

Kim A. Bard is a former president of both the Primate Society of Great Britain and the European Federation for Primatology, and currently holds a Sponsored Affiliate position at the University of Michigan, Dearborn. She has worked combining comparative perspectives with developmental perspectives in the study of chimpanzees, orangutans, and humans for over forty years. Kim is co-editor of Reaching into Thought: The Minds of the Great Apes (Cambridge, 1996), and The Cultural Nature of Attachment: Contextualizing Relationships and Development (2017).

David A. Leavens is an Emeritus Reader in Comparative Psychology at the University of Sussex. For the last thirty years, he has studied pointing, pointing comprehension, and other aspects of joint attention in a variety of species, including chimpanzees, humans, dogs, and cats. David currently holds positions on the editorial boards for Animal Cognition and the Journal of Comparative Psychology.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2026
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1009445731
• ISBN 13: 9781009445733
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 425
• Herausgeber: Krause Mark A, Bard Kim A, Leavens David A
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Cambridge University Press; https://www.cambridge.org/; ; Via Honduras,15; Pomezia; Italia; 71; Italien