Book ID: CBB000773339

The Simian Tongue: The Long Debate about Animal Language (2007)

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Radick, Gregory (Author)


University of Chicago Press


Publication Date: 2007
Physical Details: xiv + 577 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index
Language: English

Description On the invention and reinvention of techniques used to listen in on primate communication since the 1890s.


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Review Smith, Roger (2008) Review of "The Simian Tongue: The Long Debate about Animal Language". British Journal for the History of Science (p. 449). unapi

Review Kuklick, Henrika (2008) Review of "The Simian Tongue: The Long Debate about Animal Language". Journal of the History of Biology (p. 780). unapi

Review Dewsbury, Donald A. (2009) Review of "The Simian Tongue: The Long Debate about Animal Language". Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences (p. 72). unapi

Review Munz, Tania (2009) Review of "The Simian Tongue: The Long Debate about Animal Language". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (p. 677). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Radick, Gregory
Alter, Stephen G.
McMullan, Luke Anthony
Eller, Andrea R.
Canington, Stephanie L.
Sholts, Sabrina B.
Journals
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Human Ecology: An Interdisciplinary Journal
Rutherford Journal: The New Zealand Journal for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology
Osiris: A Research Journal Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science
Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences
Publishers
VWB
Prometheus Books
Greenwood Press
Fides
CLUEB
Carocci Editore
Concepts
Evolution
Language and languages
Ethology
Primates
Biology
Sound reproduction
People
Darwin, Charles Robert
Garner, Richard Lynch
Goodall, Jane
Wallace, Alfred Russel
Müller, Friedrich Max
Morgan, Conway Lloyd
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
21st century
18th century
20th century, late
Early modern
Places
Guinea
Naples (Italy)
West Africa
Italy
Germany
Senegal
Institutions
Smithsonian National Zoological Park (Smithsonian National Zoo)
Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute
Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut für Biologie, Berlin
Stazione Zoologica di Napoli
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