The simian tongue : the long debate about animal language / Gregory Radick.
The simian tongue : the long debate about animal language / Gregory Radick.
The simian tongue : the long debate about animal language / Gregory Radick.
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Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007.
Date
2007.
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N156.36/2
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English
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xiv, 577 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents
Ch. 1. The Language Barrier -- Ch. 2. Brains and Minds across the Barrier -- Ch. 3. Professor Garner's Phonograph -- Ch. 4. Congo Fever -- Ch. 5. The Anthropologists and Animal Language -- Ch. 6. The Psychologists and Animal Language -- Ch. 7. Mr. Marler's Spectrograph -- Ch. 8. Simian Semantics --...
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Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007.
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Illinois
Date Published
2007.
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"Drawing on newly discovered archival sources and interviews with key scientists, Gregory Radick here reconstructs the remarkable trajectory of a technique invented and reinvented to listen in on primate communication. Richly documented and powerfully argued, The Simian Tongue charts the scientific controversies over the evolution of language from...
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The simian tongue : the long debate about animal language / Gregory Radick.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [497]-554) and index.
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N156.36/2
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74VK3XzbrmK3
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9780226702247 (cloth : alk. paper)
0226702243 (cloth : alk. paper)
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156.36
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991023796989702626
