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The Education of Koko is the first book on the most far-reaching ape language experiment yet conducted, the only one with a gorilla.
It chronicles Dr. Penny Patterson's first nine years as Koko's dedicated teacher and surrogate mother.
Koko's education gives us a beguiling glimpse into the mind of perhaps our closest relative
—an animal long vilified and misunderstood, who now teaches us about the origins of abilities we had thought to be exclusively human.
In so doing, The Education of Koko sheds important new light on the nature of the human beast.
Though out-of-print, we are pleased to make the first 3 chapters of this critically acclaimed book available for free (just follow the links),
and the entire book available as a PDF file to all Gorilla Foundation members.
Just click here to get the entire book.
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Published in 1985
by Holt, Rinehart and Winston
New York
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CONTENTS
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Preface
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Acknowledgements
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PART I. GETTING STARTED
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| Ch. 1. |
Conversations with a Gorilla |
| 2. |
Getting Started |
| 3. |
Gorilla Gorilla |
| 4. |
Tumultuous Times |
| 5. |
Koko's First Words |
| 6. |
The Move to Stanford |
| 7. |
The Campaign for Koko |
| 8. |
Koko's Day |
PART II. COMPARING KOKO WITH CHILD AND CHIMP
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The Rules of the Game |
| 10. |
Production: The Basics |
| 11. |
Comprehension: The Bacics |
| 12. |
The Troubling Question of Word Order |
| 13. |
Sign Language |
| 14. |
Testing Koko's Intelligence |
PART III. THE GORILLA VIEW OF THINGS
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Koko's World |
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Gorilla Humor and Other Language Games |
| 17. |
Innovations and Insults |
| 18. |
Koko and Michael |
| 19. |
After School Gets Out |
| 20. |
The Gorilla View of Things |
| 21. |
The Limits to Koko's Learning |
| 22. |
Conclusions |
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Epilogue
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