Next of Kin: What Chimpanzees Have Taught Me About Who We Are [ILLUSTRATED] - Softcover

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Roger Fouts; Stephen Tukel Mills

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9780965083416: Next of Kin: What Chimpanzees Have Taught Me About Who We Are [ILLUSTRATED]
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0965083411 ISBN 13: 9780965083416
Publisher: William Morrow & Co., New York, 1997

Synopsis

From Library Journal: In the early 1970s, Allen and Beatrix Gardner performed groundbreaking research in language by teaching American sign language (ASL) to a young female chimpanzee named Washoe. Hired to work with Washoe on this project was a budding psychologist named Roger Fouts. In this work, Fouts (psychology, Central Washington Univ.), codirector of the Chimpanzee and Human Communication Institute, unfolds a fascinating account of how Washoe and four other chimps learned to communicate with humans and with one another via ASL, shattering the concept put forth by Herbert S. Terrace in Nim (1979) that language was a defining barrier between humans and other animals. Fouts also breaks another barrier, declaring love for his research subjects, considering the chimps as his extended family. His actions to improve life for his chimpanzees, he notes, and promote humane treatment of all apes in captivity have adversely affected his professional career. Recommended for academic and public libraries.?Raymond Hamel, Wisconsin Regional Primate Research Ctr. Lib., Madison Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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Publisher
William Morrow & Co., New York
Publication date
1997
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0965083411
ISBN 13 
9780965083416
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
420
Rating
  • 4.48 out of 5 stars
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