num_pages: 280
description: This text describes how human ancestors reached the point in cognitive evolution from which the evolution of modern humans was possible. Rather than speculating about the mental abilities of fossil hominids on the basis of modern human psychology the author explores earlier phases of evolution with the more solid and testable evidence of human ancestry that is still modern primates and other animals.
language: English
title: The Thinking Ape: Evolutionary Origins of Intelligence
publisher: Oxford University Press