The Simian Tongue: The Long Debate about Animal Language
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In the early 1890s the theory of evolution gained an unexpected ally: the Edison phonograph. An amateur scientist used the new machine--one of the technological wonders of the age--to record monkey calls, play them back to the monkeys, and watch their reactions. From these soon-famous experiments he judged that he had discovered "the simian tongue," made up of words he was beginning to translate, and containing the rudiments from which human language...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0226702243
ISBN13:9780226702247
Release Date:February 2008
Publisher:University of Chicago Press
Length:578 Pages
Weight:2.06 lbs.
Dimensions:1.4" x 6.4" x 9.3"
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