Transcription of The social function of intellect Nicholas Humphrey
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First published in Growing Points in Ethology, ed. and , pp. 303- 317,Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1976. The social function of intellectNicholas HumphreyHenry Ford, it is said, commissioned a survey of the car scrap yards of America to find out if there wereparts of the Model T Ford which never failed. His inspectors came back with reports of almost everykind of breakdown: axles, brakes, pistons all were liable to go wrong. But they drew attention to onenotable exception, the kingpins of the scrapped cars invariably had years of life left in them.
First published in Growing Points in Ethology, ed. P.P.G.Bateson and R.A.Hinde, pp. 303- 317, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1976. The social function of ...
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