ANTH100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Francine Patterson, Dan Fouts, Communication

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTH100
• Professor: Maria Liston

Document Summary

Starting with chimpanzees have been going on after world war 2. Early attempts to teach chimpanzees how to speak english. Of course the anatomy of the mouth throat and tongue are very different. Chimpanzees are good at using their hands so they tried to teach them sign language. They lived with washoe almost for her entire life. Hope that she would also be able to breed and have babies, but being raised (cid:271)(cid:455) hu(cid:373)a(cid:374)s she did(cid:374)"t u(cid:374)dersta(cid:374)d se(cid:454)ual attra(cid:272)tio(cid:374) Communication skills of a 4 or 5 year old child for washoe. Other chimps were introduced, and they sometimes seen them sign to each other. Was taught only in a laboratory setting, large numbers of graduate would sign to him many things. Research based on a single question "can a chimp form a sentence" Doing the exact same thing they are going to get bored. Roger and debbie fouts made sure they did different things.