Edition |
1st. St. Martin's Griffin ed. |
Description |
viii, 312 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
Note |
Originally published: London, [England] : Fourth Estate Limited, c1993. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
Contents |
Chimpanzees : bridging the gap / Jane Goodall -- Meeting a gorilla / Douglas Adams and Mark Carwardine -- Chimpanzees are always new to me / Toshisada Nishida -- Chimpanzees' use of sign language / Roger S. Fouts and Deborah H. Fouts -- Language and the orang-utan : the old 'person' of the forest / H. Lyn White Miles -- Case for the personhood of gorillas / Francine Patterson and Wendy Gordon -- Gaps in the mind / Richard Dawkins -- Third chimpanzee / Jared Diamond -- Common sense, cognitive ethology and evolution / Marc Bekoff -- What's in a classification? / R. I. M. Dunbar -- Apes and the idea of kindred / Stephen R. L. Clark -- Ambiguous apes / Raymond Corbey. |
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Spirits dressed in furs? / Adriaan Kortlandt -- Apes, humans, aliens, vampires and robots / Colin McGinn -- Why Darwinians should support equal treatment for other apes / James Rachels -- Profoundly intellectually disabled humans and the great apes : a comparison / Christoph Anstotz -- Who's like us? / Heta Hayry and Matti Hayry -- Basis for (interspecies) equality / Ingmar Persson -- Ill-gotten gains / Tom Regan -- Ascent of apes--broadening the moral community / Bernard E. Rollin -- Sentientism / Richard D. Ryder -- Great apes and the human resistance to equality / Dale Jamieson -- Wahokies / Harlan B. Miller -- Humans, nonhumans and personhood / Robert W. Mitchell. |
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Personhood, property and legal competence / Gary L. Francione -- Great apes as anthropological subjects : deconstructing anthropocentrism / Barbara Noske -- Aping persons : pro and con / Steve F. Sapontzis -- Items of property / David Cantor -- Chimp farm / Betsy Swart -- They are us / Geza Teleki. |
Subject |
Animal rights.
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Animal rights movement.
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Apes.
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Added Author |
Cavalieri, Paola, 1950-
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Singer, Peter, 1946-
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ISBN |
031211818X (pbk.) |
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