Kanzi: The Ape at the Brink of the Human Mind
He has been featured in cover stories in Time, Newsweek, and National Geographic, and has been the subject of a ""NOVA"" documentary. He is directly responsible for discoveries that have forced the scientific community to recast its thinking about the nature of the mind and the origins of language.
He is Kanzi, an extraordinary bonobo chimpanzee who has overturned the idea that symbolic language is unique to our species. This is the moving story of how Kanzi learned to converse with humans and the profound lessons he has taught us about our animal cousins, and ourselves.
". . . The underlying thesis is informative and well argued . . . Savage-Rumbaugh's results are impressive." — The Washington Post
"This popular, absorbing, and controversial account is recommended." — Library Journal
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Book details
- Author
- Sue Savage-Rumbaugh
- Imprint
- Trade Paper Press, an imprint of Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Formats
- Paperback, Undefined
- Subjects
- Nature › Animals › Primates
Science › Life Sciences › Zoology
Science › Life Sciences › Zoology › Primatology - Topics
- animal language · primate communication · bonobo research · animal cognition · origins of language · ape intelligence · human-animal communication
- ISBN-13
- 9780471159599 (Paperback)9780471585916 (Hardcover)
About the authors
SUE SAVAGE-RUMBAUGH is an American psychologist and primatologist who spent more than four decades studying language and cognition in great apes, especially bonobos and chimpanzees. She is the author of Kanzi: The Ape at the Brink of the Human Mind.
Savage-Rumbaugh received her PhD in psychology from the University of Oklahoma in 1975 and held positions at the University of Oklahoma, the Yerkes Center, Georgia State University’s Language Research Center, and the Great Ape Trust in Des Moines, Iowa. She received honorary degrees from the University of Chicago and Missouri State University and was named to Time’s 100 most influential people in 2011.
ROGER LEWIN is a British science writer and the author of approximately 20 books specializing in ecology, evolution, and anthropology. His books include Bones of Contention.
Lewin won the Royal Society Prize for Science Books in 1989 for Bones of Contention. He holds a PhD in biochemistry, served on the staff of New Scientist in London for nine years, and was News Editor at Science magazine in Washington, D.C. for ten years. He is an associate of the Peabody Museum at Harvard University.