Comments on: Human & Non-Human Ape Social Cognition Compared: Humans Have Evolved Specialized Skills

By: Featured Blog: The Primatology Blog « The Amazing World of Psychiatry: A Psychiatry Blog

Fri, 27 Feb 2009 11:38:25 +0000

[...] A study supporting the evolution of intelligence in humans for the purposes of social interaction is discussed here. [...]

By: Michael Tomasello on How Humans Are Unique « Anthropology.net

Michael Tomasello on How Humans Are Unique « Anthropology.net — Thu, 29 May 2008 20:52:29 +0000

[...] His argument stems from two of his recent papers, the first, “Comparing Social Skills of Children and Apes,’ was authored along with Frans B. M. De Waal, Christophe Boesch, Victoria Horner, Andrew Whiten, Esther Herrmann, Josep Call, María Victoria Hernández-Lloreda, Brian Hare. Many of the same authors also joined Tomasello on the other paper, “Humans Have Evolved Specialized Skills of Social Cognition: The Cultural Intelligence Hypothesis,” which I covered on Primatology.net in September 2007. [...]

By: Petr

Petr — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 21:38:13 +0000

Has anybody noticed that the apes’ social cognition in this article was tested by interaction with humans, i.e. by interaction with a member of different species? How well would the kids do, in comparison with young apes, if someone tested their ability to understand adult apes? I’m not trying to deny that humans (at least some of them) have better “social cognition” skills that apes but is it reasonable to try to prove it this way?

By: Some evidence for the cultural intelligence hypothesis « :: paleotrope ::

Some evidence for the cultural intelligence hypothesis « :: paleotrope :: — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 15:59:23 +0000

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By: Testing Primates for their “Human-Like” Behaviors « Anthropology.net

Fri, 07 Sep 2007 20:48:08 +0000

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