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Kanzi: The Ape at the Brink of the Human Mind / Edition 1
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Kanzi: The Ape at the Brink of the Human Mind / Edition 1
Current price: $21.95
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Kanzi: The Ape at the Brink of the Human Mind / Edition 1
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He has been featured in cover stories in
and
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."
"This popular, absorbing, and controversial account is recommended."