SERIES IN AFFECTIVE SCIENCE CLASSICS
Series Editors
Richard J. Davidson
Paul Ekman
Klaus Scherer
Infant Chimpanzee and Human Child: A Classic 1935
Comparative Study of Ape Emotions and Intelligence
By N. N. Ladygina-Kohts
Edited by Frans B. M. de Waal
INFANT
CHIMPANZEE
and
HUMAN CHILD
A Classic 1935
Comparative
Study of Ape
Emotions and
Intelligence
N. N. LADYGINA-KOHTS
Edited by Frans B. M. de Waal
Translated by Boris Vekker
Introduction by Allen and Beatrix Gardner
The publication of this volume was sponsored by
Living Links, Yerkes Regional Research Center at Emory University.
OXFORD
University Press
2002
Copyright 2002 by Oxford University Press, Inc.
This volume was originally published in 1935, by the Museum Darwinianum,
as Volume III in their series, Scientific Memoirs of the
Museum Darwinianum
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Ladygina-Kohts, N. N. (Nadezhda Nikolaevna), 1890-1963.
Infant chimpanzee and human child: a classic 1935 comparative study of
ape emotions and intelligence / N. N. Ladygina-Kohts ; translated by Boris Vekker ;
edited by Frans B. M. de Waal.
p. cm. — (Series in affective science)
«The publication of this volume was sponsored by Living Links,
Yerkes Regional Primate Research Center at Emory University.»
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-19-513565-2
1. Chimpanzees—Psychology. 2. Animal intelligence. 3. Behavioral assessment of
children. 4. Child development—Testing. I Waal, F. B. M. de (Frans B. M.), 1948—
II. Title. III Series.
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