Next of Kin: What Chimpanzees Have Taught Me About Who We Are - Hardcover

Book 1 of 2: Living Planet Book

Fouts, Roger; Mills, Stephen Tukel

 
9780688148621: Next of Kin: What Chimpanzees Have Taught Me About Who We Are

Synopsis

Presents the moving and vibrant story of Roger Fouts's groundbreaking work teaching Washoe and other chimpanzees to communicate by using American sign language and his outspoken advocacy for improved conditions for animals in research laboratories. 125,000 first printing. Tour.

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Review

"Engrossing...alternately hilarious and heartbreaking." --"San Francisco Chronicle""Beyond its exuberant storytelling value, this book contains ideas as revolutionary as any since "The Origin of Species." --Seattle Times"

"A startling, compassionate, honest, heart-wrenching book." --Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, coauthor of "When Elephants Weep"

About the Author

Roger Fouts is Professor of Psychology at Central Washington University and Director of the Chimpanzee and Human Communications Institute.

Steven Mills is the co-author of the Animal Rights Handbook.

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