This article contains the argument that the human ability to travel mentally in time constitutes
a discontinuity between ourselves and other animals. Mental time travel comprises the …

Cognitive processes such as perception, learning, memory and decision making play an
important role in mate choice, foraging and many other behaviours. In this review, I …

Cognition presents evolutionary research with one of its greatest challenges. Cognitive
evolution has been explained at the proximate level by shifts in absolute and relative brain …

Soon after Charles Darwin formulated his theory of evolution, primate cognition became a
major area of research. In this book, Michael Tomasello and Josep Call assess the current …

Ethologists and others studying animal behavior in a “cognitive” spirit are in need of a
descriptive language and method that are neither anachronistically bound by behaviorist …

Tactical deception occurs when an individual is able to use an “honest” act from his normal
repertoire in a different context to mislead familiar individuals. Although primates have a …

Now more than ever animal studies have the potential to test hypotheses regarding how
cognition evolves. Comparative psychologists have developed new techniques to probe the …

I wrote this book because I believe that the welfare of animals is a very important subject but
one about which there is a of confusion and muddled thinking. I wanted to great deal write a …

This article surveys philosophical and scientific issues arising from questions about animal
consciousness. These questions include: which animals have consciousness and what (if …

From the process of organic evolution to the analysis of insect societies as self-organizing
systems, biology is full of awe-inspiring examples of complexity arising from simplicity. Yet in …