We argue that an understanding of the faculty of language requires substantial
interdisciplinary cooperation. We suggest how current developments in linguistics can be …

The traditional and relatively narrow-focused research on ape–human comparisons has
recently been significantly extended by investigations of different clades of animals …

Organisms, through their metabolism, their activities, and their choices, define, partly create,
and partly destroy their own niches. We refer to these phenomena as" niche construction." …

Sentience–the ability to feel, perceive and experience–is central to the animal welfare
debate as it raises the question of whether animals experience suffering in life and death …

In Animal Minds, Donald R. Griffin takes us on a guided tour of the recent explosion of
scientific research on animal mentality. Are animals consciously aware of anything, or are …

" This book reconstructs what the earliest grammars might have been and shows how they
could have led to the languages of modern humankind." Like other biological phenomena …

Thinking without Words provides a challenging new theory of the nature of non-linguistic
thought. Many scientific disciplines treat non-linguistic creatures as thinkers, explaining their …

Biology presents many wonders, but one of the most remarkable is how a complex
multicellular organism grows from a single cell. Until recently, the processes involved …

Abstract [This book presents] explanations of motivation, using an eclectic framework that
balances biological, behavioral, and cognitive theories. Not only are these theories …

This is an innovative and engaging companion to the language of memory research. It
consists of over 130 entries, bound within a coherent conceptual framework. Each entry …