Missing Links

Missing Links

by Rich, Jeremy

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Jeremy Rich uses the eccentric life of R.L. Garner (1848-1920) to examine the commercial networks that brought the first apes to America during the Progressive Era, a critical time in the development of ideas about African wildlife, race, and evolution. Garner was a self-taught zoologist and atheist from southwest Virginia. Starting in 1892, he lived on and off in the French colony of Gabon, studying primates and trying to engage U.S. academics with his theories. Most prominently, Garner claime…

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Jeremy Rich uses the eccentric life of R.L. Garner (1848-1920) to examine the commercial networks that brought the first apes to America during the Progressive Era, a critical time in the development of ideas about African wildlife, race, and evolution. Garner was a self-taught zoologist and atheist from southwest Virginia. Starting in 1892, he lived on and off in the French colony of Gabon, studying primates and trying to engage U.S. academics with his theories. Most prominently, Garner claimed that he could teach apes to speak human languages and that he could speak the languages of prima.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2011.

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The Physical Object

  • Description:1 online resource (240 pages)

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9780820340593, 0820340596
  • oclc:on1024261840
  • Dewey Decimal:599.88096721

Subjects

Human-animal relationships -- Gabon

Writers

Rich, Jeremy Newman, Richard Rael, Patrick Sinha, Manisha

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