Infant Chimpanzee and Human Child: A Classic 1935 Comparative Study of Ape Emotions and Intelligence / Edition 1

by N. N. Ladygina-Kohts, Frans de Waal, Boris Vekker

Overview

This edition presents the first complete English translation of N.N. Ladygina-Kohts' journal chronicling her pioneering work with the chimpanzee, Joni. The journal entries describe and compare the instincts, emotions, play, and habits of her son Rudy and Joni as each develops. First published in Moscow in 1935 as a memoir in the Darwin Museum Series, this edition has 120 photographs, 46 drawings and an introduction by Allen and Beatrix Gardner of the Center for Advanced Study at the University of Nevada, as well as a Foreword and an Afterword by Lisa A. Parr, Signe Preuschoft, and Frans B. M. de Waal of the Living Links Center at Emory University.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780195135657
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	03/14/2002
Series:	Series in Affective Science
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	592
Product dimensions:	9.48(w) x 6.40(h) x 1.28(d)
Lexile:	1210L (what's this?)

About the Author

Emory University, Atlanta

Table of Contents

ForewordIntroduction to the English EditionDedicationPrefaceIntroductionPart I. Descriptive. Behavior of Infant Chimpanzee1. Description of the Chimpanzee2. Chimpanzee's Emotions: Their Expressions and Their Stimuli3. Chimpanzee's Instincts4. Chimpanzee's Play5. Chimpanzee's Circumspect Behavior (Deception and Slyness)6. Using Tools7. Chimpanzee's Imitations8. Chimpanzee's Memory9. Conditional Language of Gestures and Sounds10. Natural Sounds of the ChimpanzeePart II. Analytical. Behavior of Human Child. Comparative Psychological Study11. Human and Chimpanzee: Comparison of Appearances12. Human Emotions and Emotions of the Chimpanzee13. Comparison of Human Instincts with Instincts of Chimpanzee14. Human Play and Play of the Chimpanzee15. Memory and Habits of the Human Child (Conditioned Reflex Acts)Part III. Synthesis. Biopsychological Similarities and Dissimilarities in the Behavior of Infant Chimpanzee and Human Child16. Similarities in Behavior of Human and Chimpanzee17. Differences in the Behavior of Human and ChimpanzeeConclusionNotesAcknowledgementsAfterword: Research on Facial Emotion in Chimpanzees, 75 Years Since KohtsReferences

Editorial Reviews

"A unique descriptive achievement...a healthy provocation to the modern reader's habitual psychological pigeon-holing...Today's students and other thoughtful readers should find in it an intriguing challenge: Much might be gained by convincingly filling the gap between the richness of the objective descriptions laid so generously before them and the justification of legitimate bases for ascribing particular states of emotion to these behaviors." — Andrew Whiten, Science

"Ladygina-Kohts (1890-1963) did her research in relative isolation in Stalinist Moscow while American behaviorists were relegating the human mind to a mechanical device. She compared her observations of an infant chimpanzee in her laboratory, 1913-16, with those of her own son, 1925-29. Her book was published by the Museum Darwinianum, Moscow, as volume three of its series of scientific memoirs. Waal (psychology, Yerkes' Living Links Center, Emory U.) includes all original photographs and line illustrations, and assembles commentary by other contemporary primatologists."—SciTech Book News

"Part of the charm of the book is that it allows one to lean over the author's shoulder and share her sense of discovery as a multitude of similarities between the childhood preoccupations of ape and child were discovered for the first time by her and as the equally profound mental differences began to emerge . . .But the pride of place goes to Khots's analysis of emotions and their expression——a topic that was nearly taboo during behaviorism's dominance and is still being only haltingly addressed by animal researchers today. . . Her work is a model of good science insofar as her first priority was to describe and document. Her text is supplemented by a photographic gallery that, amazingly, remains unequaled in our image-conscious times . . . A final major value of Infant Chimpanzee and Human Child is that today's students and other thoughtful readers should find it an intriguing challenge."—Science

From the Publisher

Ladygina-Kohts (1890-1963) did her research in relative isolation in Stalinist Moscow while American behaviorists were relegating the human mind to a mechanical device. She compared her observations of an infant chimpanzee in her laboratory, 1913-16, with those of her own son, 1925-29. Her book was published by the Museum Darwinianum, Moscow, as volume three of its series of scientific memoirs. Waal (psychology, Yerkes' Living Links Center, Emory U.) includes all original photographs and line illustrations, and assembles commentary by other contemporary primatologists. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)