Buch, Englisch, 204 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm
Nature, Nurture and Nim
Buch, Englisch, 204 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm
ISBN: 978-1-03-251006-4
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Dr Anna Scarnà and Robert Ingersoll use the life history of the chimpanzee, Nim Chimpsky and his family: parents Carolyn and Pan, companion Lilly, their daughter, Sheba, and an assortment of human carers, to explain the hallmarks of healthy human psychological development. What makes humans "human", and chimpanzees, "chimpanzees"? Do chimpanzees have a personality, or should we consider them to have a “chimpanality?”
Robert, close friend and carer of Nim, gives the facts about Nim’s upbringing and first-degree relatives, and Anna reports with reference to theories of brain, personality, self, and language. Together they explain what can be drawn from psychological research and reanalyse the chimpanzee work from the 1960s and 1970s in order to honour and respect the memory of those animals.
Zielgruppe
General, Postgraduate, Undergraduate Advanced, and Undergraduate Core
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Weitere Infos & Material
Nim’s Family Tree Introduction 1. Who Do You Think You Are? 2. Personality 3. We’re In Here Because You’re Not All There: Captivity 4. Overfamiliar 5. Relationship Formation and Maintenance 6. Inheritance: Reconnection with a Dying Planet