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Grands philosophes : berkeley (fiche philosophe). by Fourcassier, Eric; Lepetitphilosophe.Fr

Table of Contents: “…Page de titre; Berkeley; Biographie; L'intelligence et le gout de la critique; Un contempteur éloquent de l'athéisme; Un philosophe et un évêque engagé; Contexte philosophique; L'avènement de la raison contre l'autorité de la foi; L'effondrement de l'autorité traditionnelle; L'avènement d'une science nouvelle; L'athéisme des libres-penseurs; La controverse du rationalisme et de l'empirisme; Pensée et apport; Délier " le voile des mots "; Écarter les mots vides de sens; Une critique des idées abstraites; La formation des idées générales; Le primat du sensible; Réhabiliter le sensible.…”
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Gorilla society : conflict, compromise, and cooperation between the sexes by Harcourt, A. H. (Alexander H.)

Table of Contents: “…Primates are relatively well known -- 1.2.3. Primates are diverse -- 1.2.4. …”
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Archaeology of African plant use

Table of Contents: “…Stevens and Mary Anne Murray -- Primate archaeobotany: the potential for revealing nonhuman primate plant-use in the African archaeological record / Michael Haslam -- Dietary diversity: our species-specific dietary adaptation / Gordon Hillman and Michèle Wollstonecroft -- Seeds at Sibudu: a glimpse of Middle Stone Age vegetation at Sibudu Cave, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa / Christine Sievers -- Understanding late and terminal Pleistocene vegetation change in the Western Cape, South Africa: the wood charcoal evidence from Elands Bay Cave / Caroline Cartwright, John Parkington and Richard Cowling -- Early millet farmers in the Lower Tilemsi Valley, Northeastern Mali / Katie Manning and Dorian Q. …”
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In the light of evolution.

Table of Contents: “…Seelke7 Evolution of Columns, Modules, and Domains in the Neocortex of Primates -- Jon H. Kaas -- 8 The Remarkable, Yet Not Extraordinary, Human Brain as a Scaled-Up Primate Brain and Its Associated Cost -- Suzana Herculano-Houzel -- Part III: FROM NEURAL CIRCUIT EVOLUTION TO ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR…”
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Laboratory animal medicine

Table of Contents: “…USDA Standards; Canine Opportunity for Exercise; Psychological Well-Being of Nonhuman Primates; 3. USDA Enforcement; B. Public Health Service Policy; C. …”
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Good natured : the origins of right and wrong in humans and other animals by De Waal, Frans, 1948-2024

Table of Contents: “…Prologue -- Chapter 1: Darwinian dilemmas -- Survival of the unfittest -- Biologicizing morality -- Calvinist sociobiology -- A broader view -- The invisible grasping organ -- Ethology and ethics -- Photo essay: closeness -- Chapter 2: Sympathy -- Warm blood in cold waters -- Special treatment of the handicapped -- Responses to injury and death -- Having broad nails -- The social mirror -- Lying and aping apes -- Simian sympathy -- A world without compassion -- Photo essay: cognition and empathy -- Chapter 3: Rank and order -- A sense of social regularity -- The monkey's behind -- Guilt and shame -- Unruly youngsters -- The blushing primate -- Two genders, two moralities? -- Umbilical versus confrontational bonds -- Primus intter Pares -- Chapter 4: Quid pro quo -- The less-than-golden rule -- Mobile meals -- At the circle's center -- A concept of giving -- Testing for reciprocity -- From revenge to justice -- Photo essay: Help from a friend -- Chapter 5: Getting alone -- The social cage -- The relational model -- Peacemaking -- Rope walking -- Baboon testimony -- Draining the behavioral sink -- Community concern -- Photo essay: War and peace -- Chapter 6: Conclusions -- What does it take to be moral? …”
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Food Research : Nutritional Anthropology and Archaeological Methods. by Chrzan, Janet

Table of Contents: “…Ethnography as a Tool for Formative Research and Evaluation in Public Health NutritionCHAPTER 6. Primate Nutrition and Foodways; CHAPTER 7. Food Episodes/Social Events: Measuring the Nutritional and Social Value of Commensality; SECTION III Archaeological Study of Food and Food Habits; CHAPTER 8. …”
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BACE : Lead Target for Orchestrated Therapy of Alzheimer's Disease / Beta-site APP Cleaving Enzyme

Table of Contents: “…Tomasselli -- Pharmacological models for preclinical testing : from mouse to dog to non-human primates / Jason L. Eriksen, Michael Paul Murphy, and Elizabeth Head -- Adsorption, distribution, metabolism, excretion (ADME), efficacy, and toxicology for BACE inhibitors / Ishrut Hussain and Emmanuel Demont -- Clinical trials for disease-modifying drugs such as BACE inhibitors / Henry H. …”
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Costly and Cute : Helpless Infants and Human Evolution. by Trevathan, Wenda

Table of Contents: “…Rosenberg; 2: The Obstetrical Dilemma Unraveled / Holly M. Dunsworth; 3: Primate Birth at the Extremes: Exploring Obstetric and Metabolic Constraints / Marcia Ponce de León and Christoph P.E. …”
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Cognitive Neuroscience of Emotion. by Nadel, Lynn

Table of Contents: “…; 4 Facial Expression, Emotion, and Hemispheric Organization; 5 Recognizing Emotions by Ear and by Eye; 6 The Enigma of the Amygdala: On Its Contribution to Human Emotion; 7 Cognitive-Emotional Interactions: Listen to the Brain; 8 The Role of the Amygdala in Primate Social Cognition; 9 Electrodermal Activity in Cognitive Neuroscience: Neuroanatomical and Neuropsychological Correlates.…”
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Good natured : the origins of right and wrong in humans and other animals by Waal, F. B. M. de (Frans B. M.), 1948-

Table of Contents: “…Prologue -- Chapter 1: Darwinian dilemmas -- Survival of the unfittest -- Biologicizing morality -- Calvinist sociobiology -- A broader view -- The invisible grasping organ -- Ethology and ethics -- Photo essay: closeness -- Chapter 2: Sympathy -- Warm blood in cold waters -- Special treatment of the handicapped -- Responses to injury and death -- Having broad nails -- The social mirror -- Lying and aping apes -- Simian sympathy -- A world without compassion -- Photo essay: cognition and empathy -- Chapter 3: Rank and order -- A sense of social regularity -- The monkey's behind -- Guilt and shame -- Unruly youngsters -- The blushing primate -- Two genders, two moralities? -- Umbilical versus confrontational bonds -- Primus intter Pares -- Chapter 4: Quid pro quo -- The less-than-golden rule -- Mobile meals -- At the circle's center -- A concept of giving -- Testing for reciprocity -- From revenge to justice -- Photo essay: Help from a friend -- Chapter 5: Getting alone -- The social cage -- The relational model -- Peacemaking -- Rope walking -- Baboon testimony -- Draining the behavioral sink -- Community concern -- Photo essay: War and peace -- Chapter 6: Conclusions -- What does it take to be moral? …”

Ophthalmology of Exotic Pets. by Williams, David L.

Table of Contents: “…; Ophthalmic disease in rats and mice; References; Chapter 8:The eye of other mammalian exotic pet species; Introduction; Hamsters; Gerbils; Chinchillas; Degus; Hedgehogs; Primates; References; Chapter 9: The avian eye; Introduction.…”
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Origins : the search for our prehistoric past by Rhodes, Frank Harold Trevor

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Genomes, Evolution, and Culture Past, Present, and Future of Humankind. by Herrera, Rene J.

Table of Contents: “…Molecular evidence for punctuated equilibrium and gradualism -- Next-generation sequencing -- Genetic variation -- Variation, population structure, and effective population size -- Recombination and its effect on variation -- Linkage equilibrium and disequilibrium -- Forces leading to linkage disequilibrium -- Linkage disequilibrium and SNP haplotypes -- Linkage disequilibrium in humans -- Genome structural variations -- CNV classifications and formation mechanisms -- Methods used to detect CNVs -- CNVs associated with human phenotypes -- CNVs and evolution -- CNV in primates…”
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The Cambridge handbook of biolinguistics

Table of Contents: “…Rabaglia, and Hugh Rabagliati -- The role of Broca's Area in language function / Gregory Hickok -- Lexical retrieval and breakdown in aphasia and developmental language impairment / Naama Friedmann, Michal Biran, and Dror Dotan -- Genetics of language: roots of specific language deficits / Antonio Benitez-Burraco -- The cognitive capacities of non-human primates / Klaus Zuberbuhler -- Birdsong for biolinguistics / Kazuo Okanoya -- Language, culture and computation: an adaptive systems approach to biolinguistics / Simon Kirby -- Language and natural selection / Derek Bickerton -- The fossils of language: What are they? …”
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Suicidal behavior in alcohol and drug abuse and dependence

Table of Contents: “…""Studies in non human primates and humans on the psychopathological correlates of central serotonin dysfunction """"serotonin dysfunction and the development of alcohol dependence ""; ""serotonin dysfunction in manifest alcoholism ""; ""conclusion ""; ""references ""; ""depressed-like behavior and alcohol drinking are co-morbid but independent in the fawn-hooded rats ""; ""abstract ""; ""1. introduction ""; ""2. co-morbidity of depression and alcoholism in humans ""; ""3. animal model of depression ""; ""4. animal model of alcohol seeking behavior ""…”
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The innate mind. / Foundations and the future

Table of Contents: “…Insights from Children and Nonhuman Primates -- 16 Adaptationism, Culture, and the Malleability of Human Nature -- 17 Some Innate Foundations of Social and Cognition -- 18 Two Theories About the Cognitive Architecture Underlying Morality -- 19 The Moral Mind: How Five Sets of Innate Intuitions Guide the Development of Many Culture-Specific Virtues, and Perhaps Even Modules -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.…”
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Fetal Research and Applications : a Conference Summary. by Institute of Medicine, Fetal Research and Applications Staff

Table of Contents: “…""OPEN DISCUSSION PERIOD""""APPLICATIONS OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND GENETICS TO DEVELOPMENTAL TOXICOLOGY""; ""OPEN DISCUSSION PERIOD""; ""SESSION IV Fetal Tissue Transplantation""; ""PLASTICITY AND COMMITMENT IN THE DEVELOPING MAMMALIAN BRAIN""; ""OPEN DISCUSSION PERIOD""; ""STEM-CELL TRANSPLANTATION IN HUMAN BRAIN DISEASE""; ""OPEN DISCUSSION PERIOD""; ""FETAL TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION FOR PATIENTS WITH PARKINSON'S DISEASE""; ""IMPROVING FETAL NEURONAL GRAFT TECHNOLOGY THROUGH THE USE OF NONHUMAN PRIMATES TO MEET THE NEEDS OF HUMAN THERAPEUTICâ€?""…”
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The biology of human survival : life and death in extreme environments by Piantadosi, Claude A.

Table of Contents: “…Tolerance to Heat -- Mammalian homeothermy -- Humans as tropical primates -- Body heat balance -- Heat acclimatization -- Heat acclimatization and physical fitness -- The limitations of human tolerance to heat -- Heat illnesses -- Death by heatstroke.…”
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The neurobiology of autism

Table of Contents: “…Chugani -- The orbitofrontal-amygdala system in nonhuman primates : function, development, and early insult / Jocelyne Bachevalier -- An animal model of virus-induced autism : Borna disease virus infection of the neonatal rat / Mikhail V. …”
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Medically Assisted Conception : an Agenda for Research. by Staff, Institute of Medicine

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Psychogenic Movement Disorders : Neurology and Neuropsychiatry. by Hallett, Mark

Table of Contents: “…Treatment of Hypochondriasis and Psychogenic Movement Disorders: Focus on Cognitive-Behavioral TherapySomatization Disorder: Briquet's Hysteria; SECTION IV Pathophysiology; Voluntary and Involuntary Movements in Humans; The Neurophysiology of Voluntary Movement in Nonhuman Primates: Accumulator Models of Decision and Action in Relation to Psychogenic Movement Disorders; Consciousness; The Cognitive Executive Is Implicated in the Maintenance of Psychogenic Movement Disorders; Neuroimaging of Hysteria; SECTION V Diagnostic Techniques; Hypnosis and Psychogenic Movement Disorders.…”
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Vocalize to localize

Table of Contents: “…Fletcher -- Mirror neurons, gestures, and language evolution / Leonardo Fogassi and Pier Francesco Ferrari -- Lateralization of communicative signals in nonhuman primates and the hypothesis of the gestural origin of language / Jacques Vauclair -- Manual deixis in apes and humans / David A. …”
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Anthropology today : an encyclopedic inventory

Table of Contents: “…Oakley -- The strategy of culture history / Irving Rouse -- Primates / William L. Straus, Jr. -- The idea of fossil man / Pierre Teilhard de Chardin -- Der fossile Mensch / Hans Weinert -- Paleopathology / Erwin H. …”

Touching for knowing : cognitive psychology of haptic manual perception

Table of Contents: “…Congenitally blindness and spatial mental imagery / Cesare Cornoldi, Maria-Chiara Fastame and Tomaso Vecchi -- Intermodel relations in infancy / Arlette Streri -- Intermodal coordinations in children and adults / Yvette Hatwell -- Tactile exploration in nonhuman primates / Agnès Lacreuse and Dorothy M. Fragaszy -- Braille: issues on structure, teaching and assessment / Michael J. …”
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The Evolutionary emergence of language : social function and the origins of linguistic form

Table of Contents: “…/ Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy -- How protolanguage became language / Derek Bickerton -- Holistic utterances in protolanguage : the link from primates to humans / Alison Wray -- Syntax without natural selection : how compositionality emerges from vocabulary in a population of learners / Simon Kirby -- Social transmission favours linguistic generalisation / James R. …”
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Corporal punishment of children in theoretical perspective

Table of Contents: “…Straus, Michael Donnelly -- Corporal punishment in ecological perspective / James Garbarino -- Parent-offspring conflict and corporal punishment in primates / Lynn Fairbanks, Michael T. McGuire -- Putting corporal punishment of children in historical perspective / Michael Donnelly -- Grid-group theory and corporal punishment / Jean Giles-Sims, Charles Lockhart -- The origins of physical punishment : an ethological/attachment perspective on the use of physical punishment by human parents / Patricia Crittenden -- Behavioral theory and corporal punishment / Scott Powers, Robert Larzelere -- Behavior analysis, evolutionary theory, and the corporal discipline of children / William B. …”
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Diagnosis and control of Johne's disease

Table of Contents: “…Stage II: Subclinical DiseaseStage III: Clinical Disease -- Stage IV: Advanced Clinical Disease -- Sheep and Goats -- SPECTRUM OF DISEASE IN OTHER ANIMALS -- PATHOLOGY -- Cattle -- Lesions of Subclinical Infection -- Lesions of Clinical Infection -- Sheep -- Goats -- Exotic Ruminants -- Non-ruminant Species -- Primates -- Rabbits -- Other Species -- EPIDEMIOLOGY -- Global Prevalence in Domesticated Animals -- Prevalence in Wildlife and Zoo Animals -- MODES OF TRANSMISSION -- Fecal-Oral Transmission -- Congenital Transmission…”
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Animal communication theory : information and influence

Table of Contents: “…Botero and Selvino R. de Kort -- Information, inference and meaning in primate vocal behaviour / Julia Fischer -- Information and uncertainty in meerkats and monkeys / Colin Allen -- The neural representation of vocalisation perception / Kate L. …”
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Foundations of language development : a multidisciplinary approach.

Table of Contents: “…A Zoologist's View of Some Language Phenomena with Particular Emphasis on Vocal Learning Introduction; The Comparative Analysis of Vocal Communication; The Role of Learning in Vocal Ontogeny; Predispositions Brought to the Task of Vocal Learning; The Origins of Vocal Learning; Why Did Not Other Primates Leam to Speak?; The Neural Substrate of Vocal Behavior; Summary; References; Chapter 6. …”
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Should we eat meat? : evolution and consequences of modern carnivory by Smil, Vaclav

Table of Contents: “…: Evolution and Consequences of Modern Carnivory; Copyright; Contents; Preface; 1 Meat in Nutrition; Meat Eating and Health: Benefits and Concerns; Meat and its nutrients; Meat as a source of food energy; High-quality protein and human growth; Carnivory and civilizational diseases; Diseased meat; 2 Meat in Human Evolution; Hunting Wild Animals: Meat in Human Evolution; Primates and hominins; Meat consumption during the Paleolithic period; Extinction of the late Pleistocene megafauna; Hunting in different ecosystems; Wild meat in sedentary societies.…”
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Ecoimmunology

Table of Contents: “…Wingfield -- Amphibian immunity : staying in tune with the environment / Louise Rollins-Smith and Douglas Woodhams -- Immunity in primates within a psychosocial and life span perspective / Chris Coe -- Maternal modulation of offspring immune function in vertebrates / Dennis Hasselquist, Michael Tobler, and Jan-Ake Nilsson -- Tradeoffs limiting MHC heterozygosity / Jason L. …”
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Oxytocin, vasopressin, and related peptides in the regulation of behavior

Table of Contents: “…Bowen -- Oxytocin and vasopressin in non-human primates / Benjamin J. Ragen and Karen L. Bales -- The involvement of oxytocin and vasopressin in fear and anxiety : animal and human studies / Yoav Litvin and Donald W. …”
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Implant System for the Recording of Internal Muscle Activity to Control a Hand Prosthesis. by Saleh, Lait Abu

Table of Contents: “…8.1 System Evaluation8.2 EMG-Recording from Primates; 8.2.1 Time and Frequency Illustration; 8.3 Internal vs. …”
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The Routledge Handbook of Feminist Philosophy of Science by Crasnow, Sharon

Table of Contents: “…19 Feminist Science for the People: Feminist Approaches to Public Understanding of Science and Science Il/literacy -- Part IV: Feminist Philosophy of Science in Practice -- Biology and Biomedical Sciences -- 20 Feminist Philosophy of Biology -- 21 Observing Primates: Gender, Power, and Knowledge in Primatology -- 22 The Gendered Nature of Reprogenetic Technologies -- Psychology, Cognitive Science, and Neuroscience -- 23 What's Wrong with (Narrow) Evolutionary Psychology -- 24 Neurosexism and Our Understanding of Sex Differences in the Brain -- 25 Feminism and Cognitive Neuroscience…”
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Essentials of Cognitive Neuroscience by Postle, Bradley R.

Table of Contents: “…Neurons are never truly "at rest" -- Synchronous oscillation -- COMPLICATED, AND COMPLEX -- END-OF-CHAPTER QUESTIONS -- REFERENCES -- OTHER SOURCES USED -- FURTHER READING -- Section II Sensation, Perception, Attention, and Action -- Introduction to Section II Sensation, Perception, Attention, and Action -- Chapter 3 Sensation and Perception of Visual Signals -- KEY THEMES -- THE DOMINANT SENSE IN PRIMATES -- ORGANIZATION OF THE VISUAL SYSTEM -- The visual field -- The retinotopic organization of primary visual cortex…”
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Le mini visuel : dictionnaire français/anglais / Dictionnaire français-anglais by Corbeil, Jean-Claude, Archambault, Ariane

Table of Contents: “…Présentation du Mini Visuel; Table des matières; ASTRONOMIE; CORPS CÉLESTES; OBSERVATION ASTRONOMIQUE; ASTRONAUTIQUE; TERRE; GÉOGRAPHIE; GÉOLOGIE; MÉTÉOROLOGIE; ENVIRONNEMENT; RÈGNE VÉGÉTAL; RÈGNE ANIMAL; ORGANISMES SIMPLES ET ÉCHINODERMES; INSECTES ET ARACHNIDES; CRUSTACÉS; MOLLUSQUES; POISSONS; AMPHIBIENS; REPTILES; OISEAUX; MAMMIFÈRES RONGEURS ET LAGOMORPHES; MAMMIFÈRES ONGULÉS; MAMMIFÈRES CARNIVORES; MAMMIFÈRES MARINS; MAMMIFÈRES PRIMATES; ÊTRE HUMAIN; CORPS HUMAIN; ANATOMIE; ORGANES DES SENS; ALIMENTATION ET CUISINE; ALIMENTATION; CUISINE; MAISON; EMPLACEMENT; ÉLÉMENTS DE LA MAISON.…”
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The Lateralized Brain : the Neuroscience and Evolution of Hemispheric Asymmetries. by Ocklenburg, Sebastian

Table of Contents: “…Handedness in the Brain -- Face Asymmetries -- Summary -- Sample Questions -- References -- 2 Evolution of Asymmetries -- Introductory Short Story -- The Cambrian Explosion and the Dawn of Behavioral Asymmetries -- Reconstructing the Evolution of Handedness in Vertebrates -- Handedness in Primates -- The Evolution of Human Handedness -- The Evolution of Limb Preferences in Vertebratesâ#x80;#x94;A Summary -- Reconstructing the Evolution of Vocalization Asymmetries -- The Evolution of Language Asymmetry…”
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The human advantage : a new understanding of how our brain became remarkable by Herculano-Houzel, Suzana, 1972-

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Nonverbal communication, interaction, and gesture : selections from Semiotica

Table of Contents: “…Communicative Body Movements: American EmblemsContrastive-Identiflcational Features of Persian Gesture; Physical versus Semantic Classification of Nonverbal Forms: A Cross-Cultural Experiment; Facial Emblems of 'Right' and 'Wrong': Topographical Analysis and Derivation of a Recognition Test; Tongue Showing: A Facial Display of Humans and Other Primate Species; Sources.…”
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