Tool Intelligence as an Explanation of Cross-Linguistic Variation and Family Resemblance

ebook An Evolutionary and Typological Investigation

By Anneliese Kuhle

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Tool Intelligence taps field-primatological and field-linguistic research to draw an analogy between prelinguistic material cultures of nonhuman primates and natural human languages. Linguistics and Cognitive Science are given new incentives to search for cognitive homology in areas of extended problem awareness and manipulative intentionality.
Tool Intelligence as an Explanation of Cross-Linguistic Variation and Family Resemblance