Description

For more than 25 years, Sue Savage-Rumbaugh has been studying the cogn itive skills of laboratory-reared primates. Recently, her work achieve d a scientific breakthrough of stunning proportions: one subject has a cquired linguistic and cognitive skills equal to those of a 2-1/2-year -old human child. Apes, Language and the Human Mind skillfully combine s the exciting narrative regarding this work with incisive critical an alysis of the broader linguistic, psychological, and anthropological i mplications. Sure to be controversial, this exciting new volume offers a radical revision of the sciences of language and mind.

Author: Savage-Rumbaugh, Sue, Author: Shanker, Stuart G, Author: Taylor, Talbot J

Topic: Psychology
Media: Book
ISBN: 195109864
Language: English
Pages: 254