I just covered Language in my Intro class and was interested to learn from the book that chimpanzee vocalizations are made while inhaling, not exhaling. I made an offhand comment about it to my primatologist wife who skeptically asked for a reference. Turns out the book doesn't offer one. If that weren't bothersome enough, I can't find any support for this claim online. Scholar books pulled up a quote from Terrence Deacon's The symbolic species: The co-evolution of language and the brain (a book I've found credible on other language issues) in which he wrote "chimps vocalize on both the outbreath and the inbreath" (p. 250; but no reference either). Anybody? More generally, has anybody contacted an author when you find problems with the text? Thanks! Patrick Patrick O. Dolan, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Psychology Drew University Madison, NJ 07940 973-408-3558 [email protected]
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