List of contributors
Preface

1. Evolutionary reconstructions of great ape intelligence Anne E. Russon
2. Enhanced cognitive capacity as a contingent fact of hominid phylogeny David R. Begun

Part I. Cognition in Living Great Apes: Introduction Anne E. Russon:
3. The manual skills and cognition that lie behind hominid tool use Richard W. Byrne
4. The cognitive complexity of social organisation and socialisation in wild baboons and chimpanzees: guided participation, socialising interactions and event representation Sue Taylor Parker
5. Gestural communication in the great apes Joanna Blake
6. Great ape cognitive systems Anne E. Russon

Part II. Modern Great Ape Adaptation: Introduction Anne E. Russon:
7. What's in a brain? The question of a distinctive brain anatomy in great apes Carol E. MacLeod
8. Life histories and the evolution of large brain size in great apes Caroline Ross
9. Evolution of complex feeding techniques in primates: is this the origin of great ape intelligence? Gen Yamakoshi
10. The special demands of great ape locomotion and posture Kevin D. Hunt
11. Great ape social systems Carel P. van Schaik, Signe Preuschoft and David P. Watts
12. Diet and foraging of the great apes: ecological constraints on their social organisations and implications for their divergence Juichi Yamagiwa

Part III. Fossil Great Ape Adaptations: Introduction David R. Begun:
13. Paleoenvironments and the evolution of adaptability in great apes Richard Potts
14. Cranial evidence and the evolution of intelligence in fossil apes David R. Begun and László Kordos
15. Life history and cognitive evolution in the apes Jay Kelley
16. Fossil hominoid diets, extractive foraging and the origins of great ape intelligence Michelle Singleton
17. Paleontology, terrestriality and the intelligence of great apes Daniel L. Gebo
18. Body size and intelligence in hominoid evolution Carol V. Ward, Mark Flinn and David R. Begun

Part IV. Integration:
19. Evolutionary origins of great ape intelligence: an integrated view Anne E. Russon and David R. Begun

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Anne E. Russon is a Professor of Psychology at Glendon College of York University in Toronto, Canada. David Begun is a Professor of Anthropology at the University of Toronto.