The Chimpanzee’s Theory of How The World Works
Povinelli endeavors to reveal chimpanzees’ understanding of the principles behind tool making and use by exploring the author’s experiments on captive chimpanzees. The book begins with an attempt to “expose the logical weakness in assuming that the similarity in the natural behavior of humans and chimpanzees implies a comparable degree of similarity in the mental states which attend and generate that behavior.”
Povinelli, Daniel; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003
Povinelli endeavors to reveal chimpanzees’ understanding of the principles behind tool making and use by exploring the author’s experiments on captive chimpanzees. The book begins with an attempt to “expose the logical weakness in assuming that the similarity in the natural behavior of humans and chimpanzees implies a comparable degree of similarity in the mental states which attend and generate that behavior.”