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Cover image for book Tool Intelligence as an Explanation of Cross-Linguistic Variation and Family Resemblance

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

An Evolutionary and Typological Investigation
By:Anneliese Kuhle
Publisher:Bloomsbury USA
Print ISBN:9781498561211
eText ISBN:9781498561228
Edition:1
Format:Reflowable

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Tool Intelligence taps primatological and linguistic field 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.