Next of Kin: What Chimpanzees Have Taught Me About Who We Are

Binding: Hardcover
EAN: 9780688148621
Edition: 1
ISBN: 068814862X
Label: William Morrow & Co
Languages:EnglishUnknownEnglishOriginal LanguageEnglishPublished
Manufacturer: William Morrow & Co
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 420
Publication Date: 1997-10
Publisher: William Morrow & Co
Studio: William Morrow & Co

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Editorial Review:

Product Description:
At the heart of this moving and vibrant book is Fouts' magical, 30-year friendship with Washoe--the chimp whom Fouts has taught American Sign Language--whose dialogues with the author have opened a window into chimpanzee consciousness. Movie rights sold to 20th century Fox. of photos.

Amazon.com Review:
For three decades, primatologist Roger Fouts has been involved in language studies of the chimpanzee, the animal most closely related to human beings. Among his subjects was the renowned Washoe, who was "endowed with a powerful need to learn and communicate," and who developed an extraordinary vocabulary in American Sign Language. Another chimpanzee, Fouts writes, "never made a grammatical error," which turned a whole school of linguistic theory upside down. While reporting these successes, Fouts also notes that chimpanzees are regularly abused in laboratory settings and that in the wild their number has fallen from 5,000,000 to fewer than 175,000 in the last century.

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