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Feral children and clever animals : reflections on human nature /
What is it that sets us apart from the rest of the animal kingdom? What makes us unique? What makes us human? In this provocative book, Douglas Candland shows that as we begin to understand the way animals and non-speaking humans 'think', we hold up a mirror of sorts to our own mental worl...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
1993.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | What is it that sets us apart from the rest of the animal kingdom? What makes us unique? What makes us human? In this provocative book, Douglas Candland shows that as we begin to understand the way animals and non-speaking humans 'think', we hold up a mirror of sorts to our own mental world, and gain profound insights into human nature. Among the fascinating accounts of feral children and clever animals from which the book draws its arguments are the Wolf Girls of India, Victor, the Wild Boy of Aveyron, Kaspar Hauser, and 'Clever Hans', the German horse that could calculate square roots. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xx, 411 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-394) and index. |
| ISBN: | 142940616X 9781429406161 9780195102840 0195102843 9780195074680 0195074688 128052863X 9781280528637 9780195356144 0195356144 |