Human cognitive ecology: an instructive framework for comparative primatology

2004 ◽  
Vol 62 (3) ◽  
pp. 229-241 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janet Dixon Keller
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Ecology ◽  
Comparative Primatology

scholarly journals Introduction: Social Cognitive Ecology and Its Role in Social Epistemology

Episteme ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-5
Author(s):  
Mikkel Gerken ◽  
Jesper Kallestrup ◽  
Klemens Kappel ◽  
Duncan Pritchard
Keyword(s):  
Social Epistemology ◽  
Social Cognitive ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Cognitive Ecology ◽  
University Of Edinburgh ◽  
The University

The articles in this special issue were selected from the 2010 Episteme conference, “Cognitive Ecology: The Role of the Concept of Knowledge in Our Social Cognitive Ecology”, which took place at the University of Edinburgh in June 2010. The overarching purpose of the conference was to explore our epistemic concepts – and the concept of knowledge in particular – from the perspective offered by a social cognitive ecology.

Cognitive Ecology

2017 ◽  
pp. 226-236
Author(s):  
Edwin Hutchins
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Ecology

scholarly journals Pleistocene Water Crossings and Adaptive Flexibility Within the Homo Genus

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dylan Gaffney
Keyword(s):  
Range Expansion ◽  
Social Ties ◽  
Homo Sapiens ◽  
Early Pleistocene ◽  
Adaptive Behaviors ◽  
Cognitive Ecology ◽  
Founder Populations ◽  
Provisioning Strategies ◽  
Novel Environments ◽  
Global Data

Abstract Pleistocene water crossings, long thought to be an innovation of Homo sapiens, may extend beyond our species to encompass Middle and Early Pleistocene Homo. However, it remains unclear how water crossings differed among hominin populations, the extent to which Homo sapiens are uniquely flexible in these adaptive behaviors, and how the tempo and scale of water crossings played out in different regions. I apply the adaptive flexibility hypothesis, derived from cognitive ecology, to model the global data and address these questions. Water-crossing behaviors appear to have emerged among different regional hominin populations in similar ecologies, initially representing nonstrategic range expansion. However, an increasing readiness to form connections with novel environments allowed some H. sapiens populations to eventually push water crossings to new extremes, moving out of sight of land, making return crossings to maintain social ties and build viable founder populations, and dramatically shifting subsistence and lithic provisioning strategies to meet the challenges of variable ecological settings.

Bird Minds

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gisela Kaplan
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Abilities ◽  
Life Histories ◽  
Water Extract ◽  
Comparative Psychology ◽  
Cognitive Ecology ◽  
Crack Open ◽  
General Audience ◽  
Australian Birds ◽  
Cognitive Behaviour ◽  
Australian Magpie

In her comprehensive and carefully crafted book, Gisela Kaplan demonstrates how intelligent and emotional Australian birds can be. She describes complex behaviours such as grieving, deception, problem solving and the use of tools. Many Australian birds cooperate and defend each other, and exceptional ones go fishing by throwing breadcrumbs in the water, extract poisonous parts from prey and use tools to crack open eggshells and mussels. The author brings together evidence of many such cognitive abilities, suggesting plausible reasons for their appearance in Australian birds. Bird Minds is the first attempt to shine a critical and scientific light on the cognitive behaviour of Australian land birds. In this fascinating volume, the author also presents recent changes in our understanding of the avian brain and links these to life histories and longevity. Following on from Gisela’s well-received books, Australian Magpie and Tawny Frogmouth, as well as two earlier titles on birds, Bird Minds contends that the unique and often difficult conditions of Australia's environment have been crucial for the evolution of unusual complexities in avian cognition and behaviour. This book is written for a general audience, especially amateur ornithologists and naturalists but it will equally appeal to specialists in bird behaviour and students working in biology, comparative psychology, cognitive ecology, field ornithology, zoology, aviculture and animal welfare. It will also be of interests to veterinarians, zoo personnel, bird lovers and members of other groups concerned with birds. Recipient of a 2016 Whitley Award commendation for Behavioural Zoology

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