Apes, Men, and Language
Author | : Eugene Linden |
Publisher | : Penguin Books |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Eugene Linden |
Publisher | : Penguin Books |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
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Author | : Eugene Linden |
Publisher | : Ballantine Books |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 1987-07-12 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780345342348 |
Author | : Eugene Linden |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Russell H. Tuttle |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 1089 |
Release | : 2014-02-17 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0674073169 |
In this masterwork, Russell H. Tuttle synthesizes a vast research literature in primate evolution and behavior to explain how apes and humans evolved in relation to one another, and why humans became a bipedal, tool-making, culture-inventing species distinct from other hominoids. Along the way, he refutes the influential theory that men are essentially killer apes—sophisticated but instinctively aggressive and destructive beings. Situating humans in a broad context, Tuttle musters convincing evidence from morphology and recent fossil discoveries to reveal what early primates ate, where they slept, how they learned to walk upright, how brain and hand anatomy evolved simultaneously, and what else happened evolutionarily to cause humans to diverge from their closest relatives. Despite our genomic similarities with bonobos, chimpanzees, and gorillas, humans are unique among primates in occupying a symbolic niche of values and beliefs based on symbolically mediated cognitive processes. Although apes exhibit behaviors that strongly suggest they can think, salient elements of human culture—speech, mating proscriptions, kinship structures, and moral codes—are symbolic systems that are not manifest in ape niches. This encyclopedic volume is both a milestone in primatological research and a critique of what is known and yet to be discovered about human and ape potential.
Author | : Thomas A. Sebeok |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 483 |
Release | : 2013-03-09 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1461330122 |
Author | : Stanley L. Jaki |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 131 |
Release | : 2006-01-01 |
Genre | : Creative ability in science |
ISBN | : 9780977482634 |
Author | : Sue Savage-Rumbaugh |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 255 |
Release | : 1998-06-18 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0198026978 |
Current primate research has yielded stunning results that not only threaten our underlying assumptions about the cognitive and communicative abilities of nonhuman primates, but also bring into question what it means to be human. At the forefront of this research, Sue Savage-Rumbaugh recently has achieved a scientific breakthrough of impressive proportions. Her work with Kanzi, a laboratory-reared bonobo, has led to Kanzi's acquisition of linguistic and cognitive skills similar to those of a two and a half year-old human child. Apes, Language, and the Human Mind skillfully combines a fascinating narrative of the Kanzi research with incisive critical analysis of the research's broader linguistic, psychological, and anthropological implications. The first part of the book provides a detailed, personal account of Kanzi's infancy, youth, and upbringing, while the second part addresses the theoretical, conceptual, and methodological issues raised by the Kanzi research. The authors discuss the challenge to the foundations of modern cognitive science presented by the Kanzi research; the methods by which we represent and evaluate the abilities of both primates and humans; and the implications which ape language research has for the study of the evolution of human language. Sure to be controversial, this exciting new volume offers a radical revision of the sciences of language and mind, and will be important reading for all those working in the fields of primatology, anthropology, linguistics, philosophy of mind, and cognitive and developmental psychology.
Author | : Robbins Burling |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2007-03-08 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0191509183 |
In this mind-opening book, Robbins Burling presents the most convincing - and the most readable - account of the origins of language yet published. He sheds new light on how language affects the way we think, behave, and relate to each other, and he gives us a deeper understanding of the nature of language itself. The author traces language back to its earliest origins among our distant ape-like forbears several million years ago. He offers a new account of the route by which we acquired our defining characteristic and explores the changing nature of language as it developed through the course of our evolution. He considers what the earliest forms of communication are likely to have been, how they worked, and why they were deployed. He examines the qualities of mind and brain needed to support the operations of language and the advantages they offered for survival and reproduction. He investigates the beginnings and prehistories of vocabulary and grammar; and connects work in fields extending from linguistics, sign languages, and psychology to palaeontology, evolutionary biology, and archaeology. And he does all this in a style that is crystal-clear, constantly enlivened by wit and humour.
Author | : Kathleen Rita Gibson |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 506 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Computers |
ISBN | : 9780521485418 |
Looks at how humans have evolved complex behaviours such as language and culture.
Author | : Kenneth A. R. Kennedy |
Publisher | : American Mathematical Soc. |
Total Pages | : 536 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780472110131 |
Provides the first comprehensive study of the ancient peoples of south Asia