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   Apes, Language and the Human Mind » Read Now

   by Sue Savage-Rumbaugh, Stuart G. Shanker, Talbot J. Taylor. 248 pgs.

   Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

   For more than twenty years, Sue Savage-Rumbaugh has been studying the linguistic and cognitive skills of a number of laboratory-reared primates. Recently, her work with Kanzi (a bonobo) has been acknowledged as having achieved a scientific breakthrough of stunning proportions: Kanzi has acquired...

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   For more than twenty years, Sue Savage-Rumbaugh has been studying the linguistic and cognitive skills of a number of laboratory-reared primates. Recently, her work with Kanzi (a bonobo) has been acknowledged as having achieved a scientific breakthrough of stunning proportions: Kanzi has acquired linguistic and cognitive skills equal to those of a 2-1/2 year-old human child. Apes, Language and the Human Mind skillfully combines the exciting narrative regarding the Kanzi research with incisive critical analysis of the research's broader linguistic, psychological, and anthropological implications. Sure to be controversial, this exciting new volume offers a radical revision of the sciences of language and mind.

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   Chimpanzee (Pan Troglodytes) Counting in a Computerized Testing Paradigm, in The Psychological Record » Read Now

   by Michael J. Beran, Duane M. Rumbaugh, E. Sue Savage-Rumbaugh. 18 pgs.

   Collections: Psychology, Entire Library
   
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   Biological and Behavioral Determinants of Language Development (Chap. 6 "Comparative Perspectives of Brain, Cognition, and Language" by Duane M. Rumbaugh, William D. Hopkins, David A. Washburn, and E. Sue Savage-Rumbaugh, Chap. 9 "Language Learning in the Bonobo: How and Why They Learn" by E. Sue Savage-Rumbaugh, and Chap. 10 "Imitation, Grammatical Development, and the Invention of Protogrammar by an Ape" by Patricia M. Greenfield and E. Sue Savage-Rumbaugh) » Read Now

   by Norman A. Krasnegor, Duane M. Rumbaugh, Richard L. Schiefelbusch, Michael Studdert-Kennedy. 534 pgs.

   Collections: Education, Psychology, Entire Library
   
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   Behavioral Evolution and Integrative Levels (Chap. 12 "Levels of Communicative Competency in the Chimpanzee: Pre-Representational and Representational" by Sue Savage-Rumbaugh and Rose A. Sevcik) » Read Now

   by Gary Greenberg, Ethel Tobach. 307 pgs.

   Collections: Psychology, Entire Library
   
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   Communicating Meaning: The Evolution and Development of Language (Chap. 10 "Biobehavioral Roots of Language: Words, Apes, and a Child" by Duane M. Rumbaugh and E. Sue Savage-Rumbaugh) » Read Now

   by Duane M. Rumbaugh, Boris M. Velichkovsky. 336 pgs.

   Collections: Education, Entire Library
   
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   Animal Cognition: Proceedings of the Harry Frank Guggenheim Conference, June 2-4, 1982 (Chap. 17 "Acquisition of Functional Symbol Usage in Apes and Children" by E. Sue Savage Rumbaugh) » Read Now

   by T. G. Bever, H. L. Roitblat, H. S. Terrace. 684 pgs.

   Collections: Psychology, Entire Library
   
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   Rattling the Cage: Toward Legal Rights for Animals (Discussion of Sue Savage-Rumbaugh begins on p. 222) » Read Now

   by Steven M. Wise. 368 pgs.

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   Rattling the Cage explains how the failure to recognize the basic legal rights of chimpanzees and bonobos in light of modern scientific findings creates a glaring contradiction in our law. In this witty, moving, persuasive, and impeccably researched argument, Wise demonstrates that the cognitive...

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   Rattling the Cage explains how the failure to recognize the basic legal rights of chimpanzees and bonobos in light of modern scientific findings creates a glaring contradiction in our law. In this witty, moving, persuasive, and impeccably researched argument, Wise demonstrates that the cognitive, emotional, and social capacities of these apes entitle them to freedom from imprisonment and abuse.

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   Feral Children and Clever Animals: Reflections on Human Nature (Discussion of Sue Savage-Rumbaugh begins on p. 337) » Read Now

   by Douglas Keith Candland. 414 pgs.

   Collections: Education, Psychology, Entire Library

   What is it that sets us apart from the rest of the animal kingdom? What makes us unique? What makes us human? In this provocative book, Douglas 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...

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   What is it that sets us apart from the rest of the animal kingdom? What makes us unique? What makes us human? In this provocative book, Douglas 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. Weaving together diaries, contemporary newspaper accounts, and his own enlightening commentary, Candland brings to life a series of extraordinary stories. He begins with a look at past efforts to civilize feral children. We meet Victor, the Wild Boy of Aveyron, now famous as the subject of a Truffaut film; Kaspar Hauser, raised in a cell, civilized, and then assassinated; and the Wolf Girls of India, found early this century huddled among wolf pups in a forest den (they were originally believed to be ghosts by superstitious villagers, who nearly shot them as they were being captured). In each case, it was hoped that the study of these children would help clarify the age-old nature/nurture debate, but, as Candland shows, so much of the information "revealed" was really only a projection of beliefs previously held by the investigating scientists. Candland then turns to "clever animals." We learn how the investigation of "Clever Hans," the German horse who could calculate square roots, proved to be a first step in the direction of behaviorism (researchers found that Hans was being tipped off by the subtle and unwitting body language of his owner and other observers, who would bend almost imperceptibly at the waist with every hoof beat, and stand erect when the correct count was reached). And Candland discusses the many attempts to communicate with our closest neighbor, the apes. We read of Richard Lynch Garner's 1892 experiment living with chimpanzees in Gabon (he taught one to say the French word "feu"), and of Gua, raised by W.N. and L.A. Kellogg alongside their own son Donald, and of the latest successes of teaching sign language to such precocious apes as Sarah, Sherman, Austin, and Koko. Throughout, Candland illuminates the boldest and most intriguing efforts yet to extend our world to that of our fellow creatures. And he shows that, in the end, our effort to "make contact" is a reflection of the way in which we as a species create and order our universe. Humans have long shown a wish to connect with the silent minds around them. In assembling and interpreting the compelling tales in this book, Candland offers us a new understanding not only of the animal kingdom, but of the very nature of humanity, and our place in the great chain of being.

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