Research Catalog

The simian tongue : the long debate about animal language / Gregory Radick.

Title
The simian tongue : the long debate about animal language / Gregory Radick.
Author
Radick, Gregory
Publication
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Filter by

1 Item

StatusVol/DateFormatAccessCall NumberItem Location
Request for On-site UseRequest Scan
How do I pick up this item and when will it be ready?
2007TextRequest in advance QL737.P9 R25 2007 2007Off-site

Holdings

Details

Description
xiv, 577 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Summary
"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 Darwin's day to our own, resurrecting the forgotten debts of psychology, anthropology, and other behavioral sciences to the Victorian debate about the animal roots of human language."--BOOK JACKET.
Subject
  • Sociobiology > methods
  • Language
  • Biological Evolution
  • Primates > psychology
  • Animal Communication
  • Primates > Psychology
  • Animal communication
  • Language and languages > Origin
  • Human evolution
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [497]-554) and index.
Contents
Introduction -- The Language Barrier -- Brains and Minds across the Barrier -- Professor Garner's Phonograph -- Congo Fever -- The Anthropologists and Animal Language -- The Psychologists and Animal Language -- Mr. Marler's Spectrograph -- Simian Semantics -- Playbacks in Amboseli -- Conclusion.
ISBN
  • 9780226702247 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0226702243 (cloth : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2007026793
OCLC
153597961
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library