Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (68 page)

57. See, for example, Eugene Linden,
Silent Partners: The Legacy of the Ape Language Experiments
(New York: Times Books, 1986); Roger Fouts, “Capacities for Language in the Great Apes,” in
Proceedings, Ninth International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences
(The Hague: Mouton, 1973).

58.
For example, “Man is the only animal … that can use symbols” (Max Black,
The Labyrinth of Language
[New York: Praeger, 1968]); “Animals cannot have language … If they had it, they would … no longer be animals. They would be human beings” (K. Goldstein, “The Nature of Language,” in
Language: An Enquiry into Its Meaning and Function
[New York: Harper, 1957]); “There seems to be no substance to the view that human language is simply a more complex instance of something to be found elsewhere in the animal world” (Noam Chomsky,
Language and Mind
[New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1972]). These examples are taken from Donald R. Griffin’s
The Question of Animal Awareness
, revised edition (New York: Rockefeller University Press, 1981). Only occasionally is a contrary note sounded (e.g., A. I. Hallowell,
Philosophical Theology
, Vol. 2 [Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1937], p. 94.)

59.
Derek Bickerton,
Language and Species
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990), especially pp. 8, 15–16.

60.
Bickerton,
op. cit.
, proposes that the early speech of children is a “protolanguage” fundamentally different from fully developed human languages, that this protolanguage may be accessible to apes, and that it was used by our ancestors in the transition from apes to humans.

1.
(New York: Doubleday, 1958), p. 345.

2.
In the wild there are occasional female chimps who reject males under all circumstances and at great cost. They of course produce no children. Might this correlation be noticed? Might there be,
occasionally, a chimp that ponders the possible connection between sex and babies? How sure can we be that this might not be so?

3.
Bolingbroke (1809), quoted in Arthur O. Lovejoy,
The Great Chain of Being: A Study of the History of an Idea
(Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1953), p. 196.

4.
Ambrose Bierce, “Reverence,” in
The Enlarged Devil’s Dictionary
, Ernest Jerome Hopkins, editor (Garden City, NY: Double-day, 1967), p. 247.

5. Walt Whitman,
Leaves of Grass
, Harold W. Blodgett and Sculley Bradley, editors (New York: New York University Press, 1965), “Song of Myself,” stanza 32, lines 684–691, p. 60.

6.
The Essays of Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
, translated by Charles Cotton, edited by W. Carew Hazlitt, Volume 25 of
Great Books of the Western World
, Robert Maynard Hutchins, editor in chief (Chicago: William Benton/Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1952, 1977), Book III, Essay I, “Of Profit and Honesty,” p. 381.

7.
C. Boesch and H. Boesch, “Possible Causes of Sex Differences in the Use of Natural Hammers by Wild Chimpanzees,”
Journal of Human Evolution
13 (1984), pp. 415–440, and references given there.

8.
See, e.g., John Alcock, “The Evolution of the Use of Tools by Feeding Animals,”
Evolution 26
(1972), pp. 464–473; K. R. L. Hall and G. B. Schaller, “Tool-using Behavior of the Californian Sea Otter,”
Journal of Mammalogy
45 (1964), pp. 287–298; A. H. Chisholm, “The Use by Birds of Tools’ or ‘Instruments,’ ”
Ibis
96 (1954), pp. 380–383; J. van Lawick-Goodall and H. van Lawick, “Use of Tools by Egyptian Vultures,”
Nature 12
(1966), pp. 1468–1469.

9.
Anthony J. Podlecki,
The Political Background of Aeschylean Tragedy
(Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1966), pp. 1, 7, 155.

10.
Mortimer J. Adler,
The Difference of Man and the Difference It Makes
(New York: Holt, Rinehart, Winston, 1967), p. 121.

11.
Geza Teleki, “Chimpanzee Subsistence Technology: Materials and Skills,”
Journal of Human Evolution
3 (6) (November 1974), pp. 575–594; our quotes are from pp. 585–588 and p. 593.

12.
Michael Tomasello, “Cultural Transmission in the Tool Use and
Communicatory Signalling of Chimpanzees?” in
“Language” and Intelligence in Monkeys and Apes
, Sue Taylor Parker and Kathleen Gibson, editors (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990).

13.
Teleki,
op. cit
.

14.
C. Jones and J. Sabater Pi, “Sticks Used by Chimpanzees in Rio Muni, West Africa,”
Nature 223
(1969), pp. 100–101; Y. Sugiyama, “The Brush-stick of Chimpanzees Found in Southwest Cameroon and Their Cultural Characteristics,”
Primates 26
(1985), pp. 361–374; W. McGrew and M. Rogers, “Chimpanzees, Tools and Termites: New Record from Gabon,”
American Journal of Primatology
5 (1983), pp. 171–174.

15.
Teleki,
op. cit
.

16.
E.g., Kenneth P. Oakley,
Man the Tool-Maker
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1964).

17.
E. Sue Savage-Rumbaugh, Jeannine Murphy, Rose Sevcik, S. Williams, K. Brakke and Duane M. Rumbaugh, “Language Comprehension in Ape and Child,”
Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development
, in press, 1993; Duane M. Rumbaugh, private communication, 1992.

18.
Susan Essock-Vitale and Robert M. Seyfarth, “Intelligence and Social Cognition,” Chapter 37 of Barbara B. Smuts, Dorothy L. Cheney, Robert M. Seyfarth, Richard W. Wrangham, and Thomas T. Struhsaker, editors,
Primate Societies
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986), pp. 456, 457; Wolfgang Kohler,
The Mentality of Apes
, second edition (New York: Viking, 1959) (originally published in 1925), p. 38.

19.
Richard Wrangham, quoted by Ann Gibbons, “Chimps: More Diverse than a Barrel of Monkeys,”
Science
255 (1992), pp. 287, 288.

20.
H. J. Jerison,
Evolution of the Brain and Intelligence
(New York: Academic Press, 1973); Carl Sagan,
The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence
(New York: Random House, 1977), Chapter 2; William S. Cleveland,
The Elements of Graphing Data
(Monterey, CA: Wadsworth, 1985). Cleveland notes that “Happily, modern man is at the top.”

21.
R. E. Passingham, “Changes in the Size and Organization of the
Brain in Man and His Ancestors,”
Brain and Behavioral Evolution 11
(1980), pp. 73–90.

22.
Ibid
.

23.
E.g., Sagan,
op. cit
. (note 20).

24.
Gordon Thomas Frost, “Tool Behavior and the Origins of Laterality,”
Journal of Human Evolution
9 (1980), pp. 447–459.

25.
E.g., Mortimer J. Adler,
op. cit
. (note 10), p. 120.

26.
F. Nottebohm, “Neural Asymmetries in the Vocal Control of the Canary,” in
Lateralization in the Nervous System
, S. R. Harnad and R. W. Doty, editors (New York: Academic, 1977).

27.
E.g., W. D. Hopkins and R. D. Morris, “Laterality for Visual-Spatial Processing in Two Language-Trained Chimpanzees,”
Behavioral Neuroscience 103
(1989), pp. 227–234.

28.
Thomas Henry Huxley,
Evidence as to Mans Place in Nature
(London and Edinburgh: Williams and Norgate, 1863), pp. 109, 110.

29.
Aristotle,
Ethica Nicomachea
, in Volume IX of
The Works of Aristotle
, translated into English under the editorship of W. D. Ross (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1925), Book X, “Pleasure; Happiness,” 7, 1178
^a
5.

30.
Mark Twain,
Letters from the Earth
, Bernard DeVoto, editor (New York and Evanston: Harper & Row, 1962), “The Damned Human Race,” V, “The Lowest Animal,” p. 227.

31.
E.g., Carl Sagan and Richard Turco, A
Path Where No Man Thought: Nuclear Winter and the End of the Arms Race
(New York: Random House, 1990).

32.
Henry D. Thoreau,
Waiden
, edited by J. Lyndon Shanley (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1971), “Higher Laws,” p. 219.

33.
Plato,
The Republic
, translated by Benjamin Jowett (New York: The Modern Library, 1941), IX, 571, p. 330.

34.
J. Hughlings Jackson,
Evolution and Dissolution of the Nervous System
(London: John Bale, 1888), p. 38.

35.
Paul D. MacLean,
The Triune Brain in Evolution: Role in Paleocerebral Functions
(New York and London: Plenum Press, 1990).

36.
Romans
7:18 (King James translation).

37.
So far as we know, the testosterone defense has not yet been tried in a court of law.

38.
Buddhist Scriptures
, Edward Conze, editor (Harmondsworth, UK:
Penguin, 1959), p. 112;
The Saundarananda of Ashvaghosha
, E. H. Johnston, editor and translator (Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1928, 1975), Canto XV, “Emptying the Mind,” p. 86 of English translation, verse 53.

1.
Attributed to Empedocles by Hippolytus, in
Refutation of All Heresies
, I, iii, 2, in Jonathan Barnes, editor,
Early Greek Philosophy
(Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England: Penguin Books, 1987), p. 196.

1.
Thomas Aquinas,
Summa Theologica
, Volume I of
Basic Writings of Saint Thomas Aquinas
, translated by Father Laurence Shapcote, edited and translation revised by Anton C. Pegis (New York: Random House, 1945), Part I, VIII, “The Divine Government,” Question 103, Article 2, p. 952.