Full name: Next of Kin: My Conversations with Chimpanzees

Authors: Roger Fouts, Stephen Tukel Mills Year: 1997 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Non Fiction, Science, Psychology Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads OpenLibrary LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780380728220 0380728222

For 30 years Roger Fouts has pioneered communication with chimpanzees through sign language--beginning with a mischievous baby chimp named Washoe. This remarkable book describes Fout's odyssey from novice researcher to celebrity scientist to impassioned crusader for the rights of animals. Living and conversing with these sensitive creatures has given him a profound appreciation of what they can teach us about ourselves. It has also made Fouts an outspoken opponent of biomedical experimentation on chimpanzees. A voyage of scientific discovery and interspecies communication, this is a stirring tale of friendship, courage, and compassion that will change forever the way we view our biological--and spritual--next of kin. Fouts is a professor of Psychology. Similar books: In the Shadow of Man by Jane Goodall Through a Window by Jane Goodall Being Mortal by Atul Gawande The Octopus and the Orangutan by Eugene Linden Far From the Tree by Andrew Solomon The Shallows by Nicholas Carr The Red Queen by Matt Ridley How Not to Be Wrong by Jordan Ellenberg The Human Brain Book by Rita Carter Last Child in the Woods by Richard Louv The Future of the Mind by Michio Kaku Behave by Robert M. Sapolsky The Runaway Species by David Eagleman Animal Madness by Laurel Braitman The Mind's Eye by Oliver Sacks How Emotions Are Made by Lisa Barrett Proust and the Squid by Maryanne Wolf Sperm Wars by Robin Baker The Forgetting by David Shenk The Agile Gene by Matt Ridley