Professor Greg Radick of the department of Philosophy has been awarded a prestigious prize by the History of Science Society for his book The Simian Tongue: The Long Debate about Animal Language.
The HSS awarded the Suzanne J. Levinson Prize for best book in the life sciences and natural history to Professor Radick, who also co-authored the 2009 book Darwin in Ilkley, at its annual meeting in Montreal, Canada. The Simian Tongue , which was published in 2007 by University of Chicago Press, charts the scientific controversies over the evolution of ape language from Darwin's day to our own, resurrecting the forgotten debts of psychology, anthropology, and other behavioural sciences to the Victorian debate about the animal roots of human language. The book was described by the Times Literary Supplement as "a masterwork in the history of science". In his citation, Levinson Prize Chair, Manfred Laubichler said: "Radick's book is a longue durée account of one of the most puzzling problems at the intersection of anthropology and the study of animal behaviour. Where does our human language come from and do non-human primates possess language or are we separated by a language barrier? "We are certain that this creative work will move the disciplines of the history of biology and natural history forward and bring them closer to the current practice of science." Radick is Professor of History and Philosophy of Science and is the co-author or editor of several books, including Space: In Science, Art and Society and The Cambridge Companion to Darwin. The History of Science Society is the world's largest society dedicated to understanding science, technology, medicine, and their interactions with society in historical context.
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