Apes, Language, and the Human Mind - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Apes, Language, and the Human Mind write by Sue Savage-Rumbaugh. This book was released on 1998-06-18. Apes, Language, and the Human Mind available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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. The first part of the book provides a detailed, personal account of Kanzi's infancy, youth, and upbringing, while the second part addresses the theoretical, conceptual, and methodological issues raised by the Kanzi research. The authors discuss the challenge to the foundations of modern cognitive science presented by the Kanzi research; the methods by which we represent and evaluate the abilities of both primates and humans; and the implications which ape language research has for the study of the evolution of human language. Sure to be controversial, this exciting 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.
Apes, Language, and the Human Mind
Apes, Language, and the Human Mind - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Apes, Language, and the Human Mind write by E. Sue Savage-Rumbaugh. This book was released on 1998. Apes, Language, and the Human Mind available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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. The first part of the book provides a detailed, personal account of Kanzi's infancy, youth, and upbringing, while the second part addresses the theoretical, conceptual, and methodological issues raised by the Kanzi research. The authors discuss the challenge to the foundations of modern cognitive science presented by the Kanzi research; the methods by which we represent and evaluate the abilities of both primates and humans; and the implications which ape language research has for the study of the evolution of human language. Sure to be controversial, this exciting 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.
The Ape That Spoke
The Ape That Spoke - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Ape That Spoke write by John McCrone. This book was released on 1992-04. The Ape That Spoke available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Kanzi
Kanzi - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Kanzi write by Sue Savage-Rumbaugh. This book was released on 1996-09-28. Kanzi available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The remarkable story of a "talking" chimp, a leading scientist, and the profound insights they have uncovered about our species He has been featured in cover stories in Time, Newsweek, and National Geographic, and has been the subject of a "NOVA" documentary. He is directly responsible for discoveries that have forced the scientific community to recast its thinking about the nature of the mind and the origins of language. He is Kanzi, an extraordinary bonobo chimpanzee who has overturned the idea that symbolic language is unique to our species. This is the moving story of how Kanzi learned to converse with humans and the profound lessons he has taught us about our animal cousins, and ourselves. ". . . The underlying thesis is informative and well argued . . . Savage-Rumbaugh's results are impressive." — The Washington Post "This popular, absorbing, and controversial account is recommended." — Library Journal
Apes, Language, and the Human Mind
Apes, Language, and the Human Mind - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Apes, Language, and the Human Mind write by Sue Savage-Rumbaugh. This book was released on 1998. Apes, Language, and the Human Mind available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
