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Feral children and clever animals : reflections on human nature

Author: Douglas K Candland
Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 1993.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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In this book, Douglas Keith Candland shows that as we begin to understand the way animals and non-speaking humans 'think,' we hold up a mirror of sorts to our own mental world, and gain profound insights into human nature. --From publisher's description.
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Candland, Douglas K.
Feral children and clever animals.
New York : Oxford University Press, 1993
(OCoLC)624595928
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Douglas K Candland
ISBN: 0195074688 9780195074680
OCLC Number: 27379732
Description: xx, 411 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Pt. I. What Feral Children Tell Us. 1. Nature and Nurture: Children without Human Parenting. 2. Kaspar Hauser and the Wolf Children --
Pt. II. Four Psychologies. 3. Thinking about the Mind. 4. The Psychology of Psychoanalysis: Freud and Little Hans. 5. The Psychology of Experimentalism and Behaviorism: Clever Hans and Lady Wonder. 6. Experimentation and the Experimenter: Clever Hans's Companions. 7. The Psychology of Perceiving: Phenomenology and Ethology --
Pt. III. The Mental Ladder. 8. Peter and Moses, Chimpanzees Who Write. 9. Exploiting the Missing Link --
Pt. IV. People and Apes Communicating. 10. Raising Human Babies with Chimps: Donald, Gua, and Viki. 11. Human and Ape Communication: Washoe, Koko, and Nim. 12. Language and Meaning: Sarah and Lana, Sherman and Austin, Kanzi and Ai --
Pt. V. Principles and Myths. 13. Feral Children and Clever Animals.
Responsibility: Douglas Keith Candland.
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In this book, Douglas Keith Candland shows that as we begin to understand the way animals and non-speaking humans 'think,' we hold up a mirror of sorts to our own mental world, and gain profound insights into human nature. --From publisher's description.

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