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Editorial: Unnatural Behaviour

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 October 1999

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Once again great play is being made of the possibility that chimpanzees are capable of learning human language. Apparently, if supplied with a specially designed computer keyboard similar to that supplied to severely retarded human infants, Panbanisha and Kanzi, two bonobo pigmy chimpanzees are able to communicate with their trainers. According to Professor Sue Savage-Rumbaugh, the chief experimenter, the chimps are now beginning to produce real sentences. This is being taken to show that they have a sense of self and of tense.

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Editorial
Information
Philosophy , Volume 74 , Issue 4 , October 1999 , pp. 471
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© The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1999