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Machiavellian intelligence : social expertise and the evolution of intellect in monkeys, apes, and humans / edited by Richard W. Byrne and Andrew Whiten
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Description Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1988. 
xiv, 413 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. 
ISBN 0198521790  0198521758 (pbk.) 
Series

Oxford science publications

Full contents
  • Machine derived contents note: 1. Editorial: The Machiavellian Intelligence Hypotheses, Andrew Whiten and Richard Byrne
  • PART I: The Origin of the Idea
  • 2. The Social Function of Intellect, Nicholas Humphrey
  • 3. Lemur Social Behaviour and Primate Intelligence, Alison Jolly
  • 4. Social Behaviour and Primate Evolution, Michael Chance and Allan Mead
  • 5. Taking (Machiavellian) Intelligence Apart, Andrew Whiten and Richard Byrne
  • PART II: What Primates Know About Social Relationships
  • 6. Do Monkeys Understand Their Relationships? Robert Seyfarth and Dorothy Cheney
  • 7. Mapping Social Concepts in Monkeys, Verena Dasser
  • 8. The Cognitive
 
Notes

Includes index.

Bibliography: p. [379]-410.

Subjects Primates - Behavior.  |  Animal intelligence.  |  Intellect.  |  Machiavellianism (Psychology)  |  Social behavior in animals.  |  Social psychology.  |  Primates - Evolution.  |  Human evolution.  |  Primates - Intelligence - Evolution
Other authors/contributors Byrne, Richard W  |  Whiten, Andrew

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