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Apes, language, and the human mind

Author: E Sue Savage-Rumbaugh; Stuart Shanker; Talbot J Taylor
Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 1998.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Current primate research has yielded stunning results that not only threaten our underlying assumptions about the cognitive and communicative abilities of nonhuman primates, but also bring into question what it means to be human. At the forefront of this research, Sue Savage-Rumbaugh recently has achieved a scientific breakthrough of impressive proportions. Her work with Kanzi, a laboratory-reared bonobo, has led to  Read more...
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: E Sue Savage-Rumbaugh; Stuart Shanker; Talbot J Taylor
ISBN: 0195109864 9780195109863
OCLC Number: 38566026
Description: x, 244 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Responsibility: Sue Savage-Rumbaugh, Stuart G. Shanker, Talbot J. Taylor.
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Current primate research has yielded stunning results that not only threaten our underlying assumptions about the cognitive and communicative abilities of nonhuman primates, but also bring into question what it means to be human. At the forefront of this research, Sue Savage-Rumbaugh recently has achieved a scientific breakthrough of impressive proportions. Her work with Kanzi, a laboratory-reared bonobo, has led to Kanzi's acquisition of linguistic and cognitive skills similar to those of a two and a half year-old human child. Apes, Language, and the Human Mind skillfully combines a fascinating narrative of the Kanzi research with incisive critical analysis of the research's broader linguistic, psychological, and anthropological implications. This new volume offers a radical revision of the sciences of language and mind, and will be important reading for all those working in the fields of primatology, anthropology, linguistics, philosophy of mind, and cognitive and developmental psychology.

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