[Publication] The Animal Speaks, Astrid Guillaume, in dePICTions revue du Paris Institute for Critical Thinking

[Publication] The Animal Speaks, Astrid Guillaume, in dePICTions revue du Paris Institute for Critical Thinking

Astrid Guillaume, présidente de la SfZ, a écrit un article intitulé “Animal Speaks”, publié en ligne et en anglais sur le site de The Paris Institute Critical Thinking. Extrait: Human history has not displayed much concern for animals, often due to economic reasons, political and religious ideology, and scientific ignorance. This has been true, as well, in the Humanities, also known as the Human and Social Sciences (HSS). Of course,

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(Colloque 17 juin) Animal Linguistics: New Ideas in Linguistics

(Colloque 17 juin) Animal Linguistics: New Ideas in Linguistics

The study of non-human communication took off in the 1980’s following the foundational work of Seyfarth and Cheney. Since then, by comparing human language to non-human systems, biologists have explored what makes human language unique, when human language evolved from animal communicative systems, and whether the origin of language is gestural or vocal. However, after 40 years of intense research on many taxa, the communication capacities of non- human animals

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