Infant Chimpanzee and Human Child

N.N. Ladygina-Kohts earned her degree in comparative psychology at Moscow University in 1917 then became the first curator of the Darwin Museum in Moscow. Her pioneering work with the chimpanzee Joni was reported throughout the continent during her lifetime earning her a series of honors in the Soviet Union. Unfortunately Infant Chimpanzee and Human Child her diary comparing Joni''s development with that of her son Rudy had never been translated completely. This volume presents the first complete English translation with 120 photographs an introduction by Allen and Beatrix Gardner of the Center for Advanced Study at the University of Nevada and an Afterword by Lisa A. Parr Signe Preuschoft and Frans B. M. de Waal of the Living Links Center.