Infant Chimpanzee and Human Child: A Classic 1935 Comparative Study of Ape Emotions and Intelligence (Series in Affective Science)

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This edition presents the first complete English translation of N.N. Ladygina-Kohts journal chronicling her pioneering work with the chimpanzee Joni. The journal entries describe and compare the instincts emotions play and habits of her son Rudy and Joni as each develops. First published in Moscow in 1935 as a memoir in the Darwin Museum Series this edition has 120 photographs 46 drawings and an introduction by Allen and Beatrix Gardner of the Center for Advanced Study at the University of Nevada as well as a Foreword and an Afterword by Lisa A. Parr Signe Preuschoft and Frans B. M. de Waal of the Living Links Center at Emory University.