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This is the story of the ten-year relationship between a pygmy chimpanzee and a scientist, which has called into question accepted ideas about the uniqueness of homo sapiens - particularly concerning human language and consciousness. to demonstrate that he could learn aspects language in the way that a child does. He is now able to understand and respond to complex spoken English sentences, and to produce strings of words through a computerized lexigram, in which he has invented his own rules of grammatic structure.
| ISBN-13 | 9780385403320 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0385403321 |
| List Price | $21.71 |
| Format | Hardcover |
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| Pages | 320 pages |
| Publisher | John Wiley & Sons |
| Published On | 1994-12-01 |
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