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If I could talk to the animals

Gregory Radick: The simian tongue: The long debate about animal language. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2007, 578pp, $45.00 HB

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  1. School of Psychology, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia

    Thomas Suddendorf

  2. Program in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, Department of Ecology Evolution and Behavior, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA

    Mark E. Borrello

  3. Department of History and Philosophy of Science, College of Arts and Sciences, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA

    Colin Allen

  4. Centre for History and Philosophy of Science, Department of Philosophy, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK

    Gregory Radick

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Suddendorf, T., Borrello, M.E., Allen, C. et al. If I could talk to the animals. Metascience 21, 253–267 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11016-011-9553-1

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