VGC.Doubleday,1994.First edition-first printing.Red hardback(gilt lettering to the spine,small nick on the edge of the cover) with Dj(small tear,creases and nicks on the edges of the Dj cover),both in VGC.Illustrated with b/w photos,drawings.Nice and clean pages with a couple ink marks and slightly tainted on the outer edges,small nicks and slightly yellow on the edges of the pages.The book is in VGC with light shelf wear.309pp including references,index.Price un-clipped. Product Description: This is the story of the ten-year relationship between a pygmy chimpanzee and a scientist, which has called into question accepted ideas about the uniqueness of homo sapiens - particularly concerning human language and consciousness. During the course of Sue Savage-Rambaugh's scientific odyssey, Kanzi was able to demonstrate that he could learn aspects language in the way that a child does. He is now able to understand and respond to complex spoken English sentences, and to produce strings of words through a computerized lexigram, in which he has invented his own rules of grammatic structure.
