Kanzi: The Ape at the Brink of the Human MindThe 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 |
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... comprehension , assuming that production of symbols implied comprehension . Our work with Sherman and Austin had demonstrated the fallacy of that assumption . It made clear that while apes could come to comprehend symbols , the skill ...
... comprehension the best place to start ? " We wanted to find out what Kanzi and Alia knew about language at these dif- ferent ages , through an exploration of their comprehension of novel sentences . Comprehension has been relatively ...
... comprehend much of what others were saying to them before they learned to speak . It has long been recognized that comprehension precedes pro- duction , both at the single - word and sentence stages . Comprehension can therefore put in ...
Contents
On a Beach in Portugal | 1 |
The Meaning of Words | 33 |
Talking to Each Other | 59 |
Copyright | |
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