tues || 10.23: in-class meeting
□ Animals and the Scientific/Popular Divide: Are You an Anthropomorphist?

□ Science and the Emotional Lives of Primates, Human and Non in the mid-20thc US

week 10 reading
□ "Anthropomorphism" from wikipedia
□ Hess, Nim Chimpsky, Finish Part 1, Start Part 2
□ Primate.net articles list (select as subset from the list)
[primate.net original link]
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online lab session assignment
□ Upload a blog post by 10 p.m. on Monday 10.29 on either of these two films

□ Watch either The Wild Child (Francois Truffaut, director, 1970 / 85 minutes) or Genie: Secret of the Wild Child (PBS, 1994 / 55 minutes) [Genie Transcript]

Answer the following questions as 2-3 written paragraphs (you can work the questions into the paragraphs however you wish):

In creating a description of the place of scientific knowledge in that society in that time period, what words or phrases (3) would you use? What parts of the film reflect these characteristics?

Why was the issue of language so important to the scientists? Supply two answers: the first is the most obvious reason that the scientists would use to explain their interest; for the second, ask yourself in what way addressing the language issue is a response to reasons behind the most basic explanation.

If you watched TWC: what ethical issues arise in this experiment and how are they related to the time period? Now take that response and explain why you would be surprised or not surprised to learn that a similar situation occurred 200 years later.

If you watched G: what ethical issues arise in this experiment and how are they related to the time period? Now take that response and explain why you would be surprised or not surprised to learn that a similar situation occurred 200 years earlier.