The Genius Of Dogs: How Dogs Are Smarter Than You Think

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author of This is Your Brain on Music and The World in Six Songs A masterful account of the way science is revealing just how smart dogs can be. Fascinating and highly readable. John Bradshaw
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Author:
Brian Hare & Vanessa Woods
Publication Year:
2013
ISBN:
9780142180464
Page Count:
384
Publisher:
Dutton Adult

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Brian Hare, dog researcher, evolutionary anthropologist, and founder of the Duke Canine Cognition Center, and Vanessa Woods offer revolutionary new insights into dog intelligence and the interior lives of our smartest pets. Many of you have met or heard Brian speak at APDT, now read his first book devoted to dog behavior which is sure to be a top seller among trainers and dog enthusiasts alike!

In the past decade, we have learned more about how dogs think than in the last century. Breakthroughs in cognitive science, pioneered by Brian Hare have proven dogs have a kind of genius for getting along with people that is unique in the animal kingdom.

Brian Hare's stunning discovery is that when dogs domesticated themselves as early as 40,000 years ago they became far more like human infants than their wolf ancestors. Domestication gave dogs a whole new kind of social intelligence. This finding will change the way we think about dogs and dog training indeed, the revolution has already begun.

Hare's seminal research has led him to work with every kind of dog from the tiniest shelter puppy to the exotic New Guinea singing dog, from his own childhood dog, Oreo, to the most fashionable schnoodle. The Genius of Dogs is nothing less than the definitive dog book of our time by the researcher who started a revolution.

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The Genius of Dogs is a fantastic book. It makes it very clear that there are different kinds of intelligence. All dog lovers should read this book.
Temple Grandin, author of Animals Make Us Human and Animals in Translation

The definitive dog book of our time by the researcher who started a revolution.
Daniel J. Levitin, author of This is Your Brain on Music and The World in Six Songs

A masterful account of the way science is revealing just how smart dogs can be. Fascinating and highly readable.
John Bradshaw, University of Bristol, author of Dog Sense

With the help of some wolves, Russian foxes, New Guinea singing dogs and a Labrador Retriever named Oreo, Brian Hare tells us about his fascinating search for an understanding of how dogs think and communicate.
Stanley Coren, author of Do Dogs Dream and Born to Bark

Brian Hare is a professor of Evolutionary Anthropology at Duke University, where he founded the Duke Canine Cognition Center. Vanessa Woods is a research scientist at the center as well as an award-winning journalist and the author of Bonobo Handshake. Hare and Woods are married and live in North Carolina.

pioneered by Brian Hare have proven dogs have a kind of genius for getting along with people that is unique in the animal kingdom. Brian Hare's stunning discovery is that when dogs domesticated themselves as early as 40