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Chimp castration
Ronald Kephart (rkephart@OSPREY.UNF.EDU)
Wed, 14 Feb 1996 20:56:52 -0500
In message <Pine.SUN.3.91.960215110724.4139D-100000@lingua.cltr.uq.oz.au> Ania
Lian writes:
> I do not talk about UG (read: ag) :-) as I do not like to trace back
> everything to the unknown that we assume to know, but if UG exsist then
> probably in the form of awareness of relationships. And chimps know a lot
> about relationships, they know whom to castrate when they want supremacy
> over a group, they know what castration does to creatures, they do have a
> grammar of reason, reasoning, relating and understanding relationships.
> Grammar to people who think like me is not a morphological ending, or
> word order. It is an ability to produce solvable and to solve
> "produced" relationships.
Is this true? Do chimps really castrate other chimps to gain supremacy over a
group?
Ronald Kephart
Department of Language & Literature
University of North Florida
Jacksonville, FL 32224
ph: 904-646-2580
e-mail: rkepha@unf.edu
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