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of Kin : My Conversations With Chimpanzees
by Roger Fouts, Stephen Tukel Mills, and Jane Goodall
Amazon.com Review
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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. --Copyright © Amazon.com, Inc.
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