creators_name: Vauclair, J
editors_name: Toomela, A
type: bookchapter
datestamp: 2004-04-30
lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:55:32
metadata_visibility: show
title: Would humans without language be apes?
ispublished: pub
subjects: comp-psy
full_text_status: public
keywords: language, animal communication, phylogeny, apes, monkeys, humans
abstract: The bedrock of comparative psychology of cognition, especially where nonhuman primates are concerned, rests on Darwin's famous account according to which continuity would be the main trait leading from the animal to the human mind. This idea was popularized through the statement in which Darwin postulated only quantitative differences between humans and the other species, namely "the difference in mind between man and the higher animals, great as it is, certainly is one of degree and not of kind" (Darwin, 1871, p. 128)...
date: 2003
date_type: published
publication:  Cultural guidance in the development of the human mind: Vol. 7. Advances in Child Development within Culturally Structured Environments
publisher: Greenwich, CT: Ablex Publishing Corporation
pagerange: 9-26
refereed: TRUE
citation:   Vauclair, J  (2003) Would humans without language be apes?  [Book Chapter]     
document_url: http://cogprints.org/3601/1/VauclairDevHuman03.pdf