Volume 38, Number 10 · May 30, 1991
Apes R Not Us
By Lord Zuckerman
Through a Window: My Thirty Years with the Chimpanzees of Gombe
by Jane Goodall
Houghton Mifflin, 268 pp., $21.95
Almost Human: A Journey into the World of Baboons
by Shirley C. Strum, foreword by George B. Schaller
Norton, 294 pp., $12.95 (paper)
How Monkeys See the World: Inside the Mind of Another Species
by Dorothy L. Cheney, by Robert M. Seyfarth
University of Chicago Press, 377 pp., $24.95
Language and Species
by Derek Bickerton
University of Chicago Press, 297 pp., $24.95
Uniquely Human: The Evolution of Speech, Thought, and Selfless Behavior
by Philip Lieberman
Harvard University Press, 210 pp., $27.95
At the end of his analysis of the logical shortcomings of Cartesian dualism—of the belief that what we call 'mind' is some kind of entity that is distinct from our overt actions—Gilbert Ryle observed that those who are skeptical about the view that there is 'a ghost in the machine' are not by implication degrading man to the level of a machine. Man, he wrote, 'might after all, be a sort of animal, namely, a higher mammal.' But, he then added, 'there has yet to be ventured the hazardous leap to the hypothesis that perhaps he is a man.'[1]
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