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In this provocative book, Douglas Candland shows that as we begin to understand the way animals and non-speaking humans "think," we hold up a mirror of sorts to

A comparison of accounts of attempts to civilize feral children with studies of the exploits of apes who communicate in sign language offers insights into the e

Candland argues, through an array of examples from the literature on feral children and clever animals, that the ways in which we human beings construct our und

A collective history of feral children who were brought up in the wilderness, raised by animals, or locked up in solitary confinement examines the stories of Pe