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Kanzi:

the ape at the brink of the human mind
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Wiley, Sep 14, 1996 - Nature - 336 pages
The remarkable story of a "talking" chimp, a leading scientist, and the profound insights they have uncovered about our species

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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Surprisingly more global than I had presumed. Although the bonobo Kanzi gives his name to the title of the book, the book itself allows itself intelligent extrapolation of the data he provided. All in ... Read full review

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The Meaning of Words
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Talking to Each Other
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Kanzi: The ape at the brink of the human mind. By Sue Savage ...
BOOK REVIEWS. 203. characteristics are introduced. Each of these. topics represents a highly complex theory in. its own right. The combination is formida- ...
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Dr. Sue Savage-Rumbaugh, Great Ape Trust, Des Moines, Iowa
Dr. Savage-Rumbaugh's work is also featured in Apes, Language and the Human Mind (Oxford Press, 1996) and Kanzi: The Ape at the Brink of the Human Mind ...
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Sue Savage-Rumbaugh on The Paula Gordon Show
Dr. Savage-Rumbaugh is author with Roger Lewin of Kanzi, The Ape at the Brink of the Human Mind, published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Nyota was born in the ...
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Sue Savage-Rumbaugh - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Kanzi: The Ape at the Brink of the Human Mind. Wiley. ISBN 047115959X. Savage-Rumbaugh, es, Stuart G. Shanker, and Talbot J. Taylor. 2001. ...
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Kanzi: The Ape at the Brink of the Human Mind by Sue Savage-Rumbaugh and Roger Lewin. London & New York: Doubleday, 1994, cloth $ 24.95, Pp. Xvii + 299. ...
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The Language of Apes - Advocacy For Animals
The story of Kanzi and Panbanisha’s training and the science behind it are the subject of Kanzi: The Ape at the Brink of the Human Mind. ...
advocacy.britannica.com/ blog/ advocacy/ 2007/ 11/ the-language-of-apes/

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Are Nonhuman Species Capable of Language Acquisition?
Review of Savage-Rumbaugh and Lewin's "Kanzi: The Ape at the Brink of the Human Mind." Scientific American, Volume 272, Number 6. Nollman, J. (1995). ...
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Kanzi: Information and Much More from Answers.com
Kanzi: The Ape at the Brink of the Human Mind. Wiley. ISBN 0-471-58591-2. ^ a b c Mitani, J. (1995). "Kanzi: The Ape at the Brink of the Human Mind". ...
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Suggested Reading, Great Ape Trust, Des Moines, Iowa
KANZI: THE APE AT THE BRINK OF THE HUMAN MIND Sue Savage-Rumbaugh and Roger Lewin John Wiley & Sons, Inc. New York, Chichester, Brisbane,Toronto and ...
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About the author (1996)

SUE SAVAGE-RUMBAUGH, Ph.D., is one of the world's leading ape-language researchers. She is an Associate Professor of Biology at Georgia State University and Associate Research Professor at Yerkes Regional Primate Research Center at Emory University.

ROGER LEWIN is an award-winning writer and author of twelve books, including the bestselling Origins, which he coauthored with Richard Leakey.

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