Overview

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

ISBN-10

0385403321

List Price

$21.71

Format

Hardcover

Pages

320 pages

Publisher

John Wiley & Sons

Published On

1994-12-01



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