Beyond the Brain : : How Body and Environment Shape Animal and Human Minds / / Louise Barrett.
When a chimpanzee stockpiles rocks as weapons or when a frog sends out mating calls, we might easily assume these animals know their own motivations--that they use the same psychological mechanisms that we do. But as Beyond the Brain indicates, this is a dangerous assumption because animals have dif...
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