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Apes, Language, and the Human Mind
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1998
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Language Comprehension in Ape and Child
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1993
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Kanzi: The Ape at the Brink of the Human Mind
by Sue Savage-Rumbaugh, Roger Lewin  4.09 avg rating — 58 ratings
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1994
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Kanzi
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1994
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Kanzi's Primal Language: The Cultural Initiation of Primates into Language
by Par Segerdahl, E. Sue Savage-Rumbaugh, Pär Segerdahl 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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“We do not realize how deeply our starting assumptions affect the way we go about looking for and interpreting the data we collect. We should recognize that nonhuman organisms need not meet every new definition of human language, tool use, mind, or consciousness in order to have versions of their own that are worthy of serious study. We have set ourselves too much apart, grasping for definitions that will distinguish man from all other life on the planet. We must rejoin the great stream of life from whence we arose and strive to see within it the seeds of all we are and all we may become.”
― E. Sue Savage-Rumbaugh, Kanzi: The Ape at the Brink of the Human Mind
― E. Sue Savage-Rumbaugh, Kanzi: The Ape at the Brink of the Human Mind
“With the man/animal boundary so deep a part of the Western psyche, it is little wonder that many resist its dismantling on both a logical and emotional level, and with great confusion manifest between the two. Man's ability to exploit the planet, to take of its resources as he needs, and to usurp entire forests and all living creatures therein, rests upon the unwritten assumption that the chasm between himself and all other creatures is impassable. All of modern man's activities operate from the premise that the planet is his to allot into countries, states, counties, and individual plots, because he, unlike other creatures, has been given the twin gifts of reason and expression. By assuming that other animals lack these gifts entirely, man obviates any need to listen to the wishes of the creatures with which he shares the planet. He can therefore proceed comfortably by his own lights, blind to information that is perceived as nonexistent.”
― E. Sue Savage-Rumbaugh, Kanzi: The Ape at the Brink of the Human Mind
― E. Sue Savage-Rumbaugh, Kanzi: The Ape at the Brink of the Human Mind
“To fail to try to understand the world from the point of view of the lion or the bat is to admit that the human existence is so limited that it cannot project itself satisfactorily into the minds of different creatures. Do we really want to accept this limitation when we quite satisfactorily project ourselves into all sorts of invented imaginary creatures, even those with very different sensory systems and value systems than our own? All one need do is to read a few comic books to conclude that the projection abilities of our species are great indeed and that our children, at least, have little difficulty in going beyond their ordinary frameworks of reality.”
― E. Sue Savage-Rumbaugh, Kanzi: The Ape at the Brink of the Human Mind
― E. Sue Savage-Rumbaugh, Kanzi: The Ape at the Brink of the Human Mind
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