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Baboon Metaphysics
Dorothy L. Cheney
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Description for Baboon Metaphysics
Hardback. In 1838 Charles Darwin jotted in a notebook, 'He who understands baboon would do more towards metaphysics than Locke.' This book offers a response to Darwin's challenge. Num Pages: 304 pages, 50 halftones, 1 line drawing. BIC Classification: PSVW79. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 159 x 26. Weight in Grams: 620.
In 1838 Charles Darwin jotted in a notebook, 'He who understands baboon would do more towards metaphysics than Locke.' "Baboon Metaphysics" is Dorothy L. Cheney and Robert M. Seyfarth's fascinating response to Darwin's challenge.Cheney and Seyfarth set up camp in Botswana's Okavango Delta, where they could intimately observe baboons and their social world. Baboons live in groups of up to 150, including a handful of males and eight or nine matrilineal families of females. Such numbers force baboons to form a complicated mix of short-term bonds for mating and longer-term friendships based on careful calculations of status and individual need.But ... Read more
In 1838 Charles Darwin jotted in a notebook, 'He who understands baboon would do more towards metaphysics than Locke.' "Baboon Metaphysics" is Dorothy L. Cheney and Robert M. Seyfarth's fascinating response to Darwin's challenge.Cheney and Seyfarth set up camp in Botswana's Okavango Delta, where they could intimately observe baboons and their social world. Baboons live in groups of up to 150, including a handful of males and eight or nine matrilineal families of females. Such numbers force baboons to form a complicated mix of short-term bonds for mating and longer-term friendships based on careful calculations of status and individual need.But ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Number of Pages
358
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226102436
SKU
V9780226102436
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About Dorothy L. Cheney
Dorothy L. Cheney is professor of biology and Robert M. Seyfarth is professor of psychology at the University of Pennsylvania. They are the authors of How Monkeys See the World, also published by the University of Chicago Press.
Reviews for Baboon Metaphysics
"The vivid narrative is like a bush detective story." - Steven Poole, Guardian "Baboon Metaphysics is a distillation of a big chunk of academic lives.... It is exactly what such a book should be - full of imaginative experiments, meticulous scholarship, limpid literary style, and above all, truly important questions." - Alison Jolly, Science "Cheney and Seyfarth's enthusiasm is obvious, ... Read more