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The Reith Lectures 1976

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Mechanics of the Mind
Six talks by Dr Colin Blakemore, Fellow of Downing College, and Royal Society Locke Research Fellow at Cambridge University.
5: A Burning Fire
Man, it has been suggested, is unique through his gift of language. Yet around the world there are 'academies for apes' where animals have learned a language which, Dr Blakemore argues, is not fundamentally different from our own.

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Dr Colin Blakemore
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