ANTH 2010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Habitat Destruction, Bonobo, Bipedalism
4 Nov 2017
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^they consistently use a xation, but language di ers from place to place. At some point a negative stigma against gestural communication. Even though vickey had many human like traits. Could say mama papa cup and up (consistent words) Gardner couple started study on young chimp named washoe. Kelloggs problem: tried to get chimp to do something they didn"t have the capability to do, Could understand over 150 asl signs at a young age. ^only person to get in graduate school by recommendation of chimp. Washoe hugged fouts, never happened before, and fouts became washoe"s caretaker. Lucy thought she was a human, thought chimps were animals but she"s a human in her mind. People argued: he"s just putting water and bird together because they"re associated togehter, did not make a new word. Was able to teach other chimps sign language. Matata loved ape studies going on where she was loved interaction and food.
